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Joseph Valachi, 60, don't care if it does become a bore. In the District of Columbia jail where he is resting his weary bones and wagging tongue, Joe has been asked to whip up an autobiography in hopes that he will drop a few pearls about swine he forgot before. But Joe is taking the whole thing as a serious publishing venture, says a CBS newsman who got hold of the first paragraph of The Real Thing. "To begin with," writes Joe, "I must say I came from the poorest family on earth. As a boy I went...
...last fancy social event, the 1962 Christmas Ball, run by the Student Government Association, was termed by those who attended "horrible, poorly attended, an incredible bore, a ghastly tradition." At that time it was decided to discontinue the practice indefinitely...
...science can be acquired by such a process of academic osmosis, some people argue that not all sciences are necessarily equally good vehicles for it. And since the 1959 publication of the Bruner report there have been many reactions against its assertion that the ideal Nat Sci course bore a surprising resemblance to whatever courses science departments happened to feel like offering...
...flashes of brilliant wit, he simply has nothing new to say, and what he says over and over again does not much need saying. As with most of Beckett's metaphors for the human condition, How It Is begins as a small shock and ends as a small bore...
...Rocky bore up gracefully under his- which came when former Governor Sherman Adams paid him a visit. Political associations with Adams have hardly been the vogue since he resigned under fire in 1958 as President Eisenhower's staff chief...