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That charming lady who takes issue on Senator John F. Kennedy's age [May 9] probably belongs to my own age bracket, people of such vintage often being apt to look down on youngsters of 42 years of age as "not dry behind the ears...
...anthropological documentary film that was sponsored by King Leopold III of Belgium and photographed in Ruanda-Urundi and the Congo by a team of German cameramen. It makes a sort of safari through the soul of primitive man. For most of the distance, a spectator is apt to have the disturbing sensation that he is traveling through an endless python...
...their dark days of austerity. Britons were apt to find few experiences more painful than a successful art auction. At sale after sale, they saw their treasures knocked down to the prosperous bidders, who came mostly from the U.S. "It was.'' says London Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, "a slaughter." But the slaughter is now over: Britons have not only been bidding princely sums to keep their Old Masters at home, they have even been bringing some that have been absent for decades back across the Atlantic...
...roadside signs are apt to be costly and useless. Many Africans have found that they make good roofing material...
Since nothing has ever been simple or clear-cut in Laos, the 59 newly elected Deputies are apt to spend weeks in horse-trading and jockeying for position before electing a Prime Minister. The two parties making up the National Front-the conservative Rally of the Laos People and the army-backed Committee for the Defense of the National Interest-have already subdivided themselves in backing three different candidates for the office. But the country's general policy is preordained since, thanks to the landslide, the new Assembly contains not a single opponent of the government...