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...hunter and a rabbit: "A rabbit came into view and [the hunter] raised his gun to shoot; but suddenly his arms and neck began to quiver and in his own words, 'everything gave way under me and I squatted like a wet rag.' He had to abandon hunting because [whenever] a rabbit jumped up he would lose muscular tone and fall to the ground...
Washington guessed that Malenkov would not abandon so important a job voluntarily, and that, therefore, this was proof that he is not yet in full control. London guessed just the opposite: that this was proof that Malenkov is so firmly in control that he could safely relinquish one of his heaviest assignments. Outside the Kremlin, no one really knew...
...danced her way into the most enthusiastic rave reviews in recent memory. The Times's Brooks Atkinson, who declared that Rosalind "radiates the genuine comic spirit," demanded that she be elected President of the U.S. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr happily surrendered to her "open-armed abandon." The other critics' superlatives ranged from "terrific" to "extraordinarily charming" and "thoroughly delightful...
...veils. With choreography by Valerie Bettis, Rita is the very picture of a Galilean glamour girl in an off-the-shoulder gown by Jean Louis hairdo by Helen Hunt, and make-up by Clay Campbell. She wriggles, writhes and undulates through this predecessor of the modern striptease with such abandon, as she methodically removes as many veils (six) as the law and the Breen Office will allow, that moviegoers may come away with the feeling that never before has history been so colorful...
...election because the West has decided to oppose automatically any man not rejected by the Communists, there can not logically ever be another Secretary-General. Today, India is one of few reasonably neutral countries, and the only one whose nationals neither bloc entirely distrusts. Unless the West will abandon hope for a Secretary who is completely acceptable, and settle on a leaning nentral, Western leadership will appear unreasonable, and the generic foe of Asia...