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...team's record-66 wins, 51 losses, for a percentage of .564-is still nothing to brag about. No team in league history has ever wound up in a World Series with a winning percentage that low. There is always a first time. At least that is what Las Vegas odds makers figure. Last week they made the Twins even money favorites to win the American League pennant...
...speech writing team that produced a shockingly moderate inaugural address. Ever since, Lester has baffled politicians to the left and the right. What happened to the pistol-waving racist who in 1965 led whites with ax handles against Negroes who approached his Pickrick Restaurant? What prompted him to brag that his administration had increased welfare payment? Why did he appoint 15 Negroes to local draft boards? It was a disconcerting reversal...
...that hypothesis is true, then civilization has nothing much to brag about. Modern man does not constitute an end product, an exponential improvement of the aboriginal dowry, an evolutionary intellectual advance. He is merely another mode of human society, coexisting and coequal with the most primitive tribes that have somehow survived, despite seemingly naive and archaic customs, into the space age. The marvelous fruits of contemporary Western culture-technology, medicine, literature, TV, the H-bomb-show an exercise of the mind no more commendable or admirable than the savage's totems and bone beads. Today's philosophies reflect...
...jury to make a decision which can strike this defendant from the face of the earth?" thundered Bailey. The jury's answer was a blow to the criminal counselor, who gained fame only last year by winning acquittals for Dr. Sam Sheppard and Coppolino and liked to brag about having an impressive string of 19 victories in homicide cases. So far this year, with the conviction of the Boston Strangler, he has a string of two well advertised losses. Though Bailey vowed to appeal the verdict, a stunned Coppolino was led from the courtroom to prison to start serving...
...side, a couple of distinguished-looking gentlemen were arguing. One, a passerby, was disputing the effectiveness of peace marches. After a while he pulled out his credentials. The other gentleman, a marcher, responded, "Well, I have a Ph.D. in physics. We don't have to brag to each other...