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...Thackeray's antihero, christened Redmond Barry, was a soldier, Member of Parliament, traitor, spy, gambler, spendthrift and all-round cad. He hounded the rich Lady Honoria Lyndon into marriage, taking her name as well as her fortune. The luck of Barry Lyndon finally ran out in a London prison, where he died of delirium tremens...
...last weekend, Lyndon Johnson did say that it has already been tested from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., "in sustained flight at more than 2,000 miles an hour and at altitudes in excess of 70,000 ft." It boasts a range of "thousands of miles." Until now the all-round, highest-performance aircraft in the U.S. has been the Navy's F-4B (Phantom II), which flies at a top speed of 1,650 m.p.h., and at altitudes up to 98,000 ft. Aerodynamicists who have studied the configuration of the new, missile-like All, agree that...
...years, Life Against Death, Norman O. Brown has even suggested a kind of sexual Utopia. In his vision, all repressions would be eliminated, along with civilization itself; the future would belong to sexuality, not just of the present "genital" variety, which Brown considers a form of tyranny, but the all-round, innocent sexuality a child
...King is one of the best all-round scholars whose studies for Ph.D. degrees I have guided to completion in the last 20 years at Boston University. He was planning and preparing to be a professor of graduate studies in theology. Since taking his doctorate in 1955, he has been offered attractive teaching positions in at least two strong Northern graduate schools of theology. With real sadness he declined because he could not conscientiously leave the struggle into which he had been plunged in the year following his graduation...
...announced that he had been called by God, returned to Fort Worth's Baptist seminary, and in 1959 was ordained. Only a few months later, at Johnson's urging, Moyers finally went to Washington, where the Senator began to lean heavily on him as a speechwriter and all-round political handyman...