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...last week's press conference, the President was again asked about prestige polls, and again he evaded. The polls were not "embarrassing" to the Administration, he said, and results would be released "at periodic intervals." But when newsmen tried to wring some poll results from the U.S. Information Agency, they kept hitting against stony insistence that the polls are "confidential." Said one USIA official: "We are buttoned...
...Bodies, and the son of a soldier who was wounded in the war with Prussia, Charles de Gaulle went far beyond the dictates of conventional statesmanship to heal the ancient feud between Gaul and Teuton. On his state visit to West Germany, he went out of his way to wring Germans' hands and bid them Guten Tag. Few Germans who heard him could fail to be moved when De Gaulle cried: "Das deutsche Volk ist ein grosses Volk." A popular Christmas gift in West Germany last week was a recording of the speeches he made on that trip...
Toughness & Tenderness. "Be like a sponge," N. C. Wyeth said. "Sop up every experience of life, and then don't forget to wring yourself dry in expression." What Wyeth has sopped up in his 45 years is the vast interior of a geographically limited world in which "every hill is a personal feeling." If his paintings seem stark and spare, it is because he wants to "pull things down to simplicity." He has an unerring sense of composition: anything that interferes with "the essence" of a picture is ruthlessly eliminated. He prefers winter over summer, because in winter...
Part of the Democrats' difficulty is the lackluster floor leadership of Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield. A quiet, gentle man, Mansfield has notably failed to rally his colleagues behind Kennedy's programs. Explains one Democratic Senator: "Lyndon Johnson used to wring our arms out of their sockets; but then he'd give us a bear hug afterwards, and we tolerated him. Mike wouldn't even think of putting a gentle twist on a man's arm; we love him, but he gets nothing." In the vacuum, such senior Democrats as Oklahoma's Robert...
...death. Tillman, because he turned state's evidence, was sentenced to 17 years in prison, is up for parole next year; the other three men got 199 years each. Over the nine years since then. Crump has steadfastly insisted on his innocence, maintaining that police used brutality to wring a false confession out of him. Because of involved legal technicalities, the fact that Tillman was a known dope addict, and Crump's charge of a forced confession, he has managed to stave off the executioner by carrying his appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, gaining...