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...Press pasted the President with scorn: "President Kennedy by his words and actions conveys the idea that he sits with his finger resting against the panic button and doesn't quite know how to draw it away." And both here and abroad, the cartoonists stung him with their sharpest barbs (see cuts...
...plan, Kennedy asked Congress for a host of revenue-raising footnotes to the incentive legislation, took sharpest aim on the "widespread abuses" in tax-deductible business entertainment. Treasury officials hope to raise at least $250 million by closing such barely justified loopholes as tax deductions for the maintenance of hunting lodges as business necessities, expensive business gifts, personal expenses incurred on combined business -and - pleasure trips, excessive travel expenses (possible limit: $24 a day). Kennedy's point: "The slogan 'it's deductible' should pass from our scene...
Backing up Secretary McNamara in the Defense Department are some of the sharpest minds in Washington. The top three...
Author Mitford puts rather too little wit and spirit into what is, at best, an awkward theme for comedy, the civil war between generations. Her sharpest jabs are scarcely meant to be funny and are aimed at that badly frayed bogeyman, the Americanization of the Old World. The book ends with a teen-age riot when Yanky Fonzy, a pasty-faced U.S.-type rock 'n' roller, is booked into Le Pop Club de France, escorted by two runaway idolaters from Eton-Fanny's younger sons, naturally. The Yanky Fonzy riot almost saves Don't Tell Alfred...
...gets upset when he catches an accidental elbow in a scramble for a loose ball. Detroit's Walt Dukes (7 ft., 220 lbs.) has the sharpest elbows in the league, beats a painful tattoo on the heads of friend and foe alike. Used intentionally, however, the elbow can be a far more effective weapon than a punch. Says one coach on the ethics of elbowing: "It's perfectly all right for me to belt someone if he flagrantly holds me repeatedly when we're not fighting over the ball...