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...Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired-by his own wish-from public view. But with the convening of the new Congress, he was the public man again, presiding over the Senate until John Kennedy's Inauguration. One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate" at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make "sufficient declaration" of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election. Nixon fulfilled his assignment with grace, then went...
...hours. When one of the first Democratic state victories became obvious, Brinkley remarked wryly: "Suburban areas are supposed to go Republican as soon as they can afford power lawn mowers. This obviously is not the case in Connecticut." On the whole, though, the incessant business of reporting figures-a chore at which NBC was consistently if narrowly ahead of CBS-left Brinkley little room for humorous Brinkmanship...
Kennedy's toughest chore of the week was to address the annual American Legion convention in Miami. Most Legionnaires remembered that in speaking against a Legion-sponsored veterans' pension bill in 1949, Kennedy said on the floor of the House: "The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought since 1918." Noting wryly in passing that he had "learned a good deal about the Legion, especially since 1949," Legionnaire Kennedy then delivered a call for stronger defenses-suggested an airborne SAC alert, called for a crash program for Polaris and Minuteman missiles, a jet airlift...
...effect of such a role exchange on the couple's sexual compatibility, says Dr. Linden, is disastrous: "Although sexual relations with the husband may have been reasonably satisfactory early in the marriage, they deteriorate into a mere 'chore' or 'duty' for the wife . . . Stripped of his aggressiveness, the husband becomes a passive partner; he loses interest in making the sex act satisfying for his wife. He wants her to seduce him.'' Sexstarved, the frigid woman often gravitates into extramarital affairs, from which she gains intense sexual enjoyment. "There is nothing organically wrong with...
Robert G. Skinner designed the sets, no easy chore when the play, set in the Kowalskis' two-room apartment, requires a claustrophobic atmosphere, while the stage is open to the audience on three sides. The sets were properly dingy, but never managed to show up properly the incongruity between their dinginess and the pseudo-gentility of Blanche's efforts at redecoration. Ruth Branad's costumes were splendid, even down to Stanley's bright red pajamas...