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...Johnson has heard nothing but good news. McCarthy's lackadaisical campaign has dismayed even his most ardent admirers, and Bobby Kennedy made it clear last week that he was not about to give challenge. "I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose Lyndon Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances," said Kennedy, and such supporters as Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, who had been urging him to take the plunge, quickly hailed his decision as "right." The latest Gallup poll among Democrats shows the President leading Kennedy nationally...
There is no exit except to succumb to the flood of insanity. The book's real villain is the pointlessness of life, and in Paris literary circles this is a very fashionable villain indeed. Author Le Clézio, 27, frankly enjoys life himself-he is an ardent jazz and movie buff-but he is much too clever to let the fact seep into his books. If he had to choose a bedside volume, he says, it would be Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps Le Clézio should reread that work more closely. As Tweedledum remarked of Alice...
Harvard is not being victimized by a tiny minority of misguided malcontents. Nor are the most ardent opponents of the war--so morally outraged that they have refused to comply with this country's draft laws--impelled by rosy dreams of revolution; they face several years in jail and difficulty getting a job afterwards...
...call you back. I mean-well-you sound just fine, and I can tell it's all right, so I'll tell you something. I get a lot of calls from crackpots and curiosity seekers . . ." The result, as it was with all the other ardent seekers of love partners she called, was nil, and they wondered about what kind of hang-up it was that made her call...
...unthinkable as Paris with out spring or onion soup minus the crouton. But now la soupe is spoiled-and most Americans are blaming one chef d'etat too many. Grated raw by the rough edge of the French President's tongue, they are kindled with an ardent wish to divide Charles de Gaulle into three parts...