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...bother to sue? Already, Wife Peggy has had to spend some doubtless distasteful time on the stand describing him during their courtship as "very ardent, a very ardent suitor"; a son and daughter will also testify. Some cynics suggest that it will not hurt Goldwater's current Arizona campaign for the Senate to have his name in the papers and to clear up any lingering question about his stability. But the best explanation, as it often is with Barry Goldwater, is to take him at face value. He did not like what Fact's editors said about...
...Mustard and Chef Boy-ar-Dee foods, to rub on Meet and Aero Shave, to wash their clothes with Woolite, to battle their bugs with Black Flag, to treat their ills with Dristan, Anacin and Bi-So-Dol, to keep their cool with Equanil? Even the most ardent shoppers might be hard put to answer because for all the effort it puts into making household names of its more than 90 brands, American Home Products Corp. cares little about plugging its own corporate identity...
...evening is essentially a family album of George M. Cohan's music. This may be the only musical at which the audience comes into the theater humming the songs. They hold up remarkably well, even though they celebrate the memory of a simple, ardent and unskeptical U.S. that no longer exists. No one now can summon up the unblemished patriotic fervor of You're a Grand Old Flag, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Over There. Few men now can adorn a woman in the romantic gauze and adoring awe of a song like Mary. Every addicted New Yorker...
...Ardent supporters of the Report hail it as a crucial landmark. "In a way it's like Uncle Tom's Cabin," said Abram J. Chayes '43, professor of Law, who is largely responsible for the Report's chapter on the mass media. "It poses the issue in a way which can never be ignored again. The importance of this report is that it is directed not toward the President but to the public conscience," Chayes added...
...events and personalities had a Sophoclean cast. Lyndon Johnson, the world's most powerful political leader, abjured his power in the cause of world peace; Martin Luther King, the nation's most ardent exponent of nonviolent social reform, was violently removed in an act of outrage that at first blush seemed to threaten the onslaught of race war. Yet each in his manner of de parture achieved a stature that neither had ever previously attained. King became the canonized leader of his people's cause; Johnson, about to surrender his political life, gained an unprecedented opportunity...