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...found time to chat about everything from the future of Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy ("He has done much for his party. I don't think his religion [Roman Catholic] will affect his national aspirations") to his preference for sports over political TV shows ("I find them a bore-the shows like Meet the Press...
Warning Flag? Both Russians bore out Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' press conference forecast that Geneva's prospects looked dim. Some Western experts, said Dulles, thought they knew why. Their theory; the long, friendly talks about nuclear-test inspection systems between U.S. and Russian scientists at Geneva last summer ''opened the eyes of the Soviet Union to the fact that our own knowledge was considerably greater than theirs about nuclear weapons. They realized that they were considerably behind in this matter, and therefore they lost interest in the suspension...
Critic Olin Downes once noted that Tebaldi's strapping Mimi bore little resemblance to the fragile figure Puccini and Murger conceived her to be; but he added that Tebaldi sang so movingly, with such tragic overtones, that her "enlarged portrait" emerged as more compelling than the original. The same thing might be said of most of her famous roles: in the end, a colleague notes, "they always come out Tebaldi...
...points means 40 touchdowns, give or take a few. That's an average of one score every minute and a half. Why, a game between Harvard and the so-called "best team" from Louisiana would prove the biggest bore since Adams House beat Notre Dame two years ago, 311-6. They might even have to put in the Stadium peanut-vendors to keep the score down...
...tanks and even machine guns struck him as frivolous inventions that no solid warrior need take seriously. Early in 1916 he had shown the kind of war he preferred to fight when at the Somme he lost 60,000 men on the first day of battle. In Flanders Haig bore out the assessment of British Military Historian General J.F.C. Fuller, himself a Flanders veteran: "He lived and worked like a clock; every day he did the same kind of thing at the same moment; his routine never varied. In character he was stubborn and intolerant, in speech inarticulate, in argument...