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...junta consists of Premier Georgy Malenkov ("full of old-fashioned grace"), Nikita Khrushchev ("hail fellow well met"), Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov ("quiet, patient and reasonable"), Lazar Kaganovich ("likes his liquor"), N. A. Bulganin ("handsome and witty"), A. I. Mikoyan ("probably the sharpest and cleverest of all"). All are about the same height (5 ft. 4 in.), and all have the common secondary goal of convincing their own people and the West that the "Stalin terror" is over. But Salisbury emphasizes that the change is only on the surface; their primary goal remains the same: worldwide Communist dictatorship...
Even the stock market, after its 12-month rise, seemed full of steam. At the start of the week, the market had its sharpest break in three months, when the Dow-Jones industrial average tumbled almost nine points in two days. But next day the market surged back, and by week's end industrials were back to 343.10, a loss of only 1.25 points for the week...
...usual, Wall Street, which has overlooked the decline in business, also ignored the pickup. The stock market suffered its sharpest break in four years. Many of the blue chips that had led the long advance tumbled, e.g., Du Pont dropped 4⅛ points. The Dow-Jones industrial average was chopped down 6.59 points to 321, slipped further the next day. By week's end, however, the market had stabilized. Most traders viewed the break, not as an omen of disaster, but as a much-needed "technical" reaction to the market's almost uninterrupted advance of 25% since last...
...pace and din of Guignol's Band are too fast and deafening to hold up to the very end, and the string of fantastic adventures grows increasingly limp and raveled. By then Cèline has, as always, succeeded in hammering his sharpest hallucinations deep into the reader's head. Spit-curled Cascade, lantern-bearing Dr.Clodowitz, sovereign-stuffed Titus van Claben-such characters are engraved in the memory for keeps. No visitor since Thomas Wolfe has described London with such off-beat perception and passion-not the London the tourist or the Briton has ever seen...
Cohn drove his sharpest verbal barb at Adams when telling about Adams' telephone call to ask why Cohn had been ducking him. "I told Mr. Adams," Cohn calmly related, "I believed that he had been thoroughly dishonest. He asked me what I meant ... I told him that he had directly or indirectly made a blackmail threat...