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MacArthur theorized that some emergency development (such as a press leak) on the Thursday before the changes forced the Prime Minister to act so brusquely, because MacMillan ordinarily "would not tolerate such a lack of courtesy...
...closed-session workshop was restricted to the wives of conductors and managers, with no minutes allowed. According to one leak, the qualities voted most desirable in a musical wife were musical background and talent as a hostess. Biggest faults: taking stands on too many issues and bragging about husbands. Warned one conductor's wife, who found herself smiling icily at an antagonistic newspaper critic all through a cocktail party: "You have to be impervious to insult...
...without holding Laos. The State Department's answer is that the U.S. is willing to settle for "neutrality'' in Laos because even a costly Western triumph there could not make secure the thickly forested, almost trackless border. As in nearby Cambodia, says Washington, supplies will leak across no matter who controls the capital city...
Time was when a politician, in forecasting victory, had to put his own opinion on the line-"We'll win by 2½ to 1." But no longer: now all he has to do is hire a pollster, leak the results to the press (if they are favorable, which they had better be), and claim that political science itself is on his side...
...plots. Nevertheless, the profligate is not without honor in Britain; Only Two Can Play is currently breaking box-office records there. Its success is understandable. Based on a bestselling novel (That Uncertain Feeling) by Kingsley Amis, the script releases plenty of low-pressure fizz and an occasional slow leak of wit ("I was plowing through your novel the other day," the hero murmurs sweetly to an author he detests. "We have an unsigned first edition-they're the rare ones, aren't they?"). But what matters most is Comedian Sellers. He is perfectly hilarious as the lubricious bookworm...