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...Ondine and Elmer Rice's The Winner (see THEATER). Among the celebrity-packed audience at each opening were seven men whose arrivals in the theater were meticulously noted by people on both sides of the curtain. The seven: New York's big daily newspaper critics, who wield a power in their field that few newsmen can match. As soon as the final cur tain touched the stage, four of them hurried for the exits and made for their offices, where within one hour they had written their reviews and sent them to the composing rooms of the morning...
...leaving only 14,500 unwilling Chinese to be dealt with. The U.N. had not really expected the enemy to accept this. And the U.N. had illogically demanded that the proposed prisoner commission of five neutral nations should act unanimously-after expressing fears that the Polish and Czech members would wield a veto...
...still higher level of policy, Humphrey's Treasury will have to wield the Government's influence over international trade. Some U.S. economists are suggesting that the U.S. would find itself with some $35 billion in extra cash if the Treasury would raise the price of gold i.e., devalue the dollar. Then, as the theory goes, the U.S. could use the $35 billion to set up a stabilization fund to let European countries sweep away currency restrictions. This plan has been vigorously attacked as adding to U.S. and world inflationary trends. It finds little or no favor among...
...instance, is the statement that Lodge could wield nothing but his one vote. Following this by several paragraphs is the assertion that the Old Guard Republicans' enthusiasm for Kennedy is no more than a fanatic attempt to purge Lodge. The first statement seems plausible, the second unexceptionable, yet together they clash. If Lodge is the cipher Mr. Landis claims he is, why should the Taftites strain themselves so for his defeat? Surely, the Republican irresponsible would not brave the derision inevitably attending their support of a party-line Democrat unless Lodge threatened their power...
Unlike the old stereotype of the surgeon whose one aim was to wield the knife, Dr. Moore (who specializes in abdominal surgery) and the dozens of like-minded colleagues who dominated the surgeons' meeting last week will never use it if they think it can be avoided. And, except in emergency, they will never use it without careful consultation with the patient's physician, an interview with the patient himself, and a full-team study of the results of many laboratory tests made...