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...exports to the Market countries have nearly tripled, to $3.1 billion. If France is too protectionist to want any meaningful tariff cuts, it nonetheless could turn the market into a narrow, inward-looking organization. And if it persists in its demand for a lengthy exception list, it may well bog down the Kennedy Round for many more months...
...should a team that can gain 281 yards on the ground want to pass? Well, coach John Yovicsin, always looking ahead to potential disasters, knows that days will come when the running attack will bog down. "We worked on passing a lot in preseason drills," Yovicsin said. "I'd like to get some passing in a game before the Ivy League season starts...
...Wisconsin, and concluded in Boston had done him in, maybe the hopelessness of his cause in the Northeast had quelled any enthusiasm, but Goldwater, having long ago descended from the rarefied, steely heights of the Cow Palace, spoke with a weary, methodical voice, like a man tramping through a bog. His campaign was at slack tide, and Goldwater showed what George Gallup et. al. have been telling us all along...
...TIME reported the title of my address at the American Bar Association Convention in New York as "Sex and the Single Premium" and characterized it as a "get-'em-in-the-tent" title [Aug. 21]. Actually, the full title of my scholarly lecture was "Up from the Serbonian Bog, or Sex and the Single Premium," appealing only to those interested in the intricacies of Insurance...
...reverted to that characteristic of Republicans of the late nineteenth century. Not the eighteenth century, as the ignorant said: that was the age of the Adamses, of Jefferson and Madison, of Franklin and Hamilton. No, the late nineteenth century: the era when political thought was mired in the Serbonian bog of manifest destiny, untrammelled acquisitiveness and the bloody shirt...