Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Common Market decisions are the product of purposeful near collision: a game of diplomatic chicken in which the antagonists wait until the last possible moment to veer off into compromise. Not surprisingly, Europe resounded last week with cries of crisis as the foreign ministers of the Six pre pared to meet in Brussels this week to deal with Britain's second application for Common Market membership...
...Hope comes onstage with the cocky glide of a golfer who has just knocked off three birdies for a 68 and nailed Arnold Palmer to the clubhouse door. The crooked grin spreads wide, the clear brown eyes stay cool, and the audience roars its welcome; they can hardly wait for Hope to sock it to them. And so he does. Five, six gags a minute. Pertinent, impertinent, leering, perishing. And sometimes plopping, but only for an instant. When he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops in mock anguish, or he goes into a stop...
More than Rogers, Hope has become the friend of politicians and statesmen, tycoons and sportsmen. These are the public figures at whom he tees off at a banquet or on television; yet they cannot wait to tee off with him on the links the next day. He kids the starch out of them, and they feel better for it; a needle from Hope becomes an emblem instead of a scar...
...that Hope gets more kicks from working live than on film. "You do a movie," he says, "and you have to wait to find out if it's any good. But personal appearances, that's instant satisfaction." He likes to perform in public for young people, and lately has been making the college rounds. A recent opener at U.C.L.A.: "Before it's too late, I want to make one thing clear-the only thing I'm recruiting here tonight is laughs...
...because of "military service obligations." This regulation also holds many older Cubans back because they do not wish to leave their children. No technicians may leave. Once a person employed by the state applies for an exit visa he loses his job. The long wait--without work--deters many. When they do leave, all their property is forfeited to the government. And the sign at Veradero Airport reminds those who step aboard their planes that "He who forsakes the fatherland will never again be permitted to return...