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...ghostwriter, campaign adviser, and grey eminence behind the conservative fortunes of Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. Arizona's Stephen C. Shadegg, 52, is known among the knowing as one of the nation's top backstage political managers. Last week, to the surprise of most who know him, Shadegg jumped into the glare of the footlights. Resigning as Arizona's Republican state chairman, he announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator...
Prayilny: Intouristy (literally, foreign visitors), meaning any of the locals who are dumb enough to swallow the party line. Koni (parents, literally horses), seriaki (old squares, grey ones) and gady (cops, literally reptiles). Anyone else who gets you into a lazha (jam), such as a pizhon (stoolie) or piraty (secret police), otherwise known as iskusstuovedy (literally, art experts...
...during World War II, Moore in the past 19 years has pieced together Transcontinental's operating subsidiary, Continental Trailways, and built it into the second largest U.S. bus system, with 53,000 miles of routes in 34 states. Compared with the top dog in the bus business, giant Grey hound, Continental is still a pup, but it is growing at a rate to give Greyhound pause. Last week, while Greyhound was reporting a 2.5% increase in its 1961 operating revenues (to $334 million), Continental announced that its revenues had jumped 11% from $45 million to $50 million. Even more...
Some of Strindberg's Paris paintings are depressing studies in black, grey and various shades of brown. Others are shrill compositions of hard whites and yellows, oranges and blues, set against a frame of green that is liberally sprinkled with scarlet and purple dots. In one, the colors blend into something resembling mother-of-pearl; another was obviously begun by rubbing together two pieces of cardboard wet with color to make what Strindberg called "automatic painting." The show is about to take the grand tour: when it closes in Ulm, it will move to the Museum of Modern...
...that is not all they will miss; unaccountably lacking in The Spy Who Loved Me are the High-Stake Gambling Scene, the Meal-Ordering Scene, the Torture Scene, the battleship-grey Bentley, and Blades Club...