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...characters at present : Genevieve, French singer with a haphazard haircut and accent to match, and an oldtime comedian named Cliff Arquette, with drooping pants and rustic repartee. Despite her sophisticated air, it is naively charming Genevieve who represents innocence on the show and Cliff, despite his cornball appearance, whose trigger-quick ad libs speak for sophistication. But the biggest character remains Jack Paar - and he represents neither innocence nor sophistication, but something in between...
Such harassing fire, the restless reaction of a hair-trigger combat commander caught in the paper and politics of the peacetime Pentagon, tends to obscure the best of his book and the special brand of Army "wild blue yonder" that is the best of Jim Gavin. After a hard-eyed assessment of a U.S. Army that could be stopped by the "primitive" Red Chinese in Korea, he makes a passionate demand for the money and decisions to provide the West with an atom-armed and airmobile fighting force that can hold down Communist threats, big and little, by being ready...
...businessmen expect the crisis to trigger a vast, Korea-like boom with accompanying inflationary spiral. Lebanon is not Korea; the U.S. is not in a war, and the Government is making no hasty plans for big stockpiles, material allocations or other controls. At the moment, the effect of Mid-East upheaval is more likely to show itself in a subtle, psychological change in the business climate rather than in any dramatic turnabout...
...factor that helped trigger the rise is the upturn in the Canadian economy, heralded several weeks ago by a dramatic drop in unemployment. Canadians were showing new optimism, which always engenders speculation, and the boom was concentrated in speculative stocks that had gone ignored for months. Said a Toronto exchange member: "I don't think this would have happened four months ago, no matter what the drilling reports were. There was too much recession mood around then. But the thinking has been changing. It's a sign people are starting to think big again." Canadians gleefully termed...
...determine the fastest-drawing young cowpoke in the block was put on sale by Kilgore, Inc., Westerville, Ohio. Titled Fastest Gun, the game provides a plastic steer skull and two six-shooters (attached to 8-ft. wires) with plastic holsters. The boy who draws faster and pulls the trigger makes one eye in the skull light up and ring a bell. Price...