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...Since then Jones has returned to his university post. Even Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, was taken to task by men in the White House when he conceded in June that the recovery was not rapidly reducing unemployment. (Because he usually managed to gloss over even grim statistics, McCracken became known to newsmen as "Dr. McQualify," and his No. 2 man, Herbert Stein, was dubbed "Mr. All Fine...
Within a month or two, A.C. Nielsen, the Grim Rater, will probably have cast down at least a few of these new comedies. But the networks have already groomed such summer-tested replacements as Sonny and Cher and British Comic Marty Feldman. Also waiting in the wings at CBS is splenetic and iconoclastic Don Rickles, who in the pilot for his next TV incarnation is cast as an advertising executive presumably with executioner power over TV shows. Given the quality of the new-season series to date, Rickles will not want for real-life material on which to exercise...
...paramilitary organization. The leaders had commandeered a megaphone, and they dictated a list of demands, which had been neatly typed by inmates seated at a long bench. The hostages were encircled and carefully guarded?both against escape and from any harm by more hostile inmates?by a ring of grim convicts, standing with arms interlocked. Some wore football helmets; others were masked by towels and rags...
Moments later, the prisoners marched four hostages to the top of Times Square. An "executioner" pulled back the head of each and held a knife to his throat. Elsewhere in D yard, grim convicts, taking up similar positions be side each of the other hostages, poised as if to kill them with either a knife or crowbar. Oswald turned to aides...
...Grim Illusion. Listening from outer darkness, poor old Grendel is temporarily taken in, even though in his bones he knows men as murderers, life as meaningless. "It was a cold-blooded lie," he groans, "that a god had lovingly made the world and set out the sun and moon as lights to land dwellers, that brothers had fought, that one of the races was saved, the other cursed. Yet . . . it came to me with a fierce jolt that I wanted it, yes! Even if I must be the outcast, cursed by the rules of his hideous fable." Grendel soon casts...