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...favorite pastime is taking pokes at the Farm Bureau: "What Charlie Shuman doesn't realize is that we've got the welfare state and we've had it for 30 years. And we're not going to give it up unless we lose the ballot box...
Brazil's doughty President Humberto Castello Branco is caught in a bind. He has promised to hold gubernatorial elections in eleven states (out of 22) in October and a presidential election next year; his revolution, he says, "is not afraid of the ballot box." But because Castello Branco has a scruple against outlawing the opposition, one of the contenders for votes will be the Brazilian Labor Party, the power behind the inflationist, leftist regime that Castello Branco overthrew last year. The President is counting on electoral courts to use the new Ineligibilities Law to keep off the ballot candidates...
Sandy Koufax's curve ball was low and inside. Juan Marichal, 27, ace pitcher (record: 19-9) of the San Francisco Giants, stood in the batter's box and watched it go by. Behind him, Los Angeles Dodger Catcher John Roseboro wound up, took aim and rifled the return throw right past the batter's ear. Marichal spun around. "Why do you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He started straight for Marichal, and in front of 42,807 horrified-or delighted, as the case may be-fans, Marichal swung...
...telephone used to be a friend, something you said hello to and took for granted. But since the advent of direct dialing and seven-digit phone numbers plus area code, the square black box, which no longer is necessarily either square or black, has inspired admiration in some, irritation in others. Both the admiration and the irritation make little difference, because increasingly there is no real person to talk to anyway...