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Mike Williams-Thompson, a longtime government information officer, argued in a recent book that royal public relations should be taken away from courtiers ("men with built-in sneers"), entrusted to expert publicists. If press-palace relations continue to deteriorate, he warned, the crown cannot long "survive as a symbol of permanence in an all too swiftly changing world...
...scenes of underwater life. The archer fish, with fearful accuracy, spits liquid arrows several feet into the air, and bags a butterfly for dinner. The angler fish, looking like nothing but a clump of seaweed, sprouts a fishing pole from its nose, and dangles a tempting piece of built-in bait before a passing mullet. Conclusion: mullet into gullet like a bullet...
...revolution uncovered terrible evidence of AVH cruelty. On a wooded hill in Buda, in a bright new housing development reserved exclusively for ex-Premier Rakosi and his comrades, rebels found a villa with a built-in torture chamber and prison cells, one padded and soundproofed, another equipped with a powerful lamp beamed on a chair. The rebels remembered having seen closed automobiles driving up to this house at night. At Gyor, in the provinces, Western newsmen were shown an AVH headquarters with tiny 2 ft.-wide standup torture cells, and a secret crematory for victims who did not survive...
...Built-in Maid Service." Next day Ike and Mamie motored across Washington to the CBS television studios, there sat down in a living room set to chat about campaign issues with seven ladies chosen by G.O.P. Assistant Chairman Bertha Adkins. The special show had been geared for women voters; nudging The Big Payoff from its daily spot, Ike and his questioners aimed at women across the nation. The questions were routine-what about the draft, the cost of living, the chance of another depression? But Ike caught the spirit of the occasion, with easy grace enjoyed a 29-minute parlor...
...only made matters worse by praying for a dry track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt...