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...name," said he, adding, in case anyone wondered, "That's not to say I have sons who don't." As to the letter, though he didn't disagree with Konrad Jr., the 57-year-old Cologne businessman who had written it, neither had he been consulted beforehand. Explained the 88-year-old parent: "I believe in letting my children run free...
...Olympic trials at Orchard Beach, N.Y. were billed beforehand as the meeting of the pride of the East, Harvard and the pride of the West, the University of California...
...Solicitor General Archibald Cox has a string of 15 straight Supreme Court victories. "If I were in private practice," says a trustbusting lawyer, "I would advise my clients in concentrated industries that nearly any merger undertaken today is apt to be challenged successfully unless cleared with us beforehand...
That about says it for the Folies-Bergère: in one sense, it promised to be the biggest bust in memory, and in another it is. The French revue of flesh and spectacle opened last week in Manhattan. Even beforehand, Peeping Toms began to swarm and cluster around the Broadway Theater because they had heard that some of the girls were rehearsing without so much as a sequin to outflash their natural splendors. But, alas, even a relatively small sequin could do just that...
...election was to renew the rubber-stamp National Assembly-which, according to Hanoi, also represents South Viet Nam-and the vote was of course neither free nor democratic. The slate of candidates had been care fully chosen beforehand. But the West, which gets precious little news out of the tightly closed country north of the 17th Parallel, watched the election carefully. The real outcome might not be clear for months, but which candidates were picked, and the margins by which they were allowed to win, might provide clues to the power struggle obviously going on inside North Viet...