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Always an open-minded, liberal Republican paper, the Star boosted Alf Landon into national political prominence and gave him a try at the Presidency. Last year the Star supported a Democratic candidate for President for the first time since Grover Cleveland-not so much because it liked L.B.J. as because it disliked Goldwater even more. Since then, the Star has supported much of the Johnson program, from the war in Viet Nam to the poverty bills to civil rights legislation. As for the farm bill, the Star found something to cheer about in the fact that while...
...eater." A true monster that grows to 35 ft. and possibly 8,000 Ibs., the white shark has devoured swimmers in such diverse locations as Matawan, N.J., the Gulf of Mexico, and Portsea, Australia. The rod-and-reel record is a 2,664-pounder landed by Australian Fruit Farmer Alf Dean in 1959. That was just a baby. Dean himself hooked into a bigger one that towed his 30-ft. launch 12 miles, finally broke loose after an epic 5½-hr. battle. Last year, off New York's Montauk Point, Captain Frank Mundus, a charter-boat skipper...
...course of his career, Funk suffered one major mishap with words. In 1936 he was made editor in chief of Literary Digest, Funk & Wagnalls' weekly compendium of comment on current affairs, and he promptly ran a poll that showed Alf Landon trouncing Franklin Roosevelt...
...Britons, the switch will be far harder. No longer will a husky man weigh 15 stone but merely a pedantic 95.25 kilograms. A future Miss Universe might stack up on the telly at 91-56-89 (centimeters) instead of a somehow more appetizing 36-22-35 (inches). Bert and Alf will have to give up ordering a pint of mild or stout and order 'alf a liter instead, while the missus will have to shop for half a kilo of butter. And who, if he just misses being run down by a lorry, will feel like saying, "A miss...
...being tried in at least two medical centers in New York City, and at others in Rochester, N.Y., Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Winnipeg. About half of the hundred or more babies treated have been saved. Last month the University of California's Dr. Jimmie Alf Westberg flew to Phoenix and supervised a Liley-style transfusion. The 40-year-old mother had lost ten babies to Rh incompatibility. Her latest pregnancy will have a chance of success...