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Nevertheless, someone must head the Secretariat. And selection is a major problem since only a wax dummy could never politically offend either side. Obviously, Russia will no more endorse a national from the Western sphere of influence than the West will approve any citizen of a satellite country. This climinates Canada's Pearson, the Philippines' Romulo, and Poland's Skrzeszewski. The Kremlin has scored in Asia by announcing its lack of opposition to either Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit or Sir Benegal...
Betty is casual, direct and commonsensical. She gives women viewers a quick, feminine briefing on the products' best points; she does not offend men by gushing. And she knows, as does Westinghouse, that the only way to stay in the appliance business is to bring out something new every year. When a new product comes out, Betty immediately forgets about the product it supersedes; in fact, she acts as though she never heard of that old-fashioned knickknack she had plugged just the week before...
...played by his orchestra. All the pressagents promised to bombard newspapers, magazines and wire services with feature stories. CBS was given a special assignment: "The matter of filming the pregnancy story was so delicate that three clergymen were present to see that everything was in good taste and would offend no one: Rabbi Wolf for the Jewish faith, Monsignor Devlin for the Catholic Church, and the Rev. Clifton Moore for the Protestant faith . . . CBS will handle the story...
...begun to seem useful and highly stable citizens. In 1694, only three years after Fox's death, the Friends who edited and published the Journal of his life's work were busily snipping out some of the angrier and more polemic passages, for fear they might offend some one. Their abridgment became the standard version...
...world. While the Graphic carefully minds its manners, the Mirror minds its readers with eye-catching cheesecake and lurid tabloid writing. Fleet Streeters even recall that the Graphic once cropped a picture to show only the head of a bull because Lady Kemsley protested that the entire photo would offend Graphic readers...