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Chick of Time. From Salt Lake City, syndicated advice-to-the-lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers received a breathless request for her dating-behavior booklet "How Far to Go" with the postscript: "And please hurry...
...dozen Mid western and Western states and has sur prising strength in the South. "Kennedy is sober and temperate on civil rights." says Mississippi's Governor J. P. Coleman. "He's no hell raiser or Barnburner." Kennedy came out of nowhere in 1956 with a breathless, near-successful try. with heavy Southern support, at plucking the vice-presidential nomination out of Estes Kefauver's shaken hands. A few months later, after Dwight Eisenhower's election, Kennedy was set to thinking hard when Hubert Humphrey's wife Muriel remarked at a cocktail party: "If Stu Symington...
...teacher." Said the dean of boys: "You should stop and consider the boy's condition before you wake him. Some of these kids stay out all night on benders and need the sleep the next day." Lapsing into the tone of breathless outrage chronic in newspaper exposes, Allen wrote: "I was stunned. Was this a junior high school or a sober-ing-up tank for juvenile drunkards...
...beginning of this week, breathless or not, Allen's to-be-continued series had made some solid points: ¶ "Many students there don't have the emotional stability, the mental capacity or the desire for academic learning." ¶ "Much of the classroom instruction is a farce, based on a philosophy that aims at 'just keeping them quiet.' " ¶"There is open defiance in the classrooms . . . Teacher morale is low . . . Teachers have been threatened with physical violence by students." ¶Most telling point: "The training in education I was required to take for my New York City...
...rescue crews took off and headed for the floating island. There the men, lugging: what gear they could, tramped through the blackness, stumbling through piles of ice, skirting cracks and ridges. At the runway, they lit gasoline-and paper-filled cans and magnesium flares and waited in the breathless cold as the C-123J cautiously turned for the airstrip. Says George Cvijonovich, scientific leader of the group: "It was really a mixture of astonishment and aesthetics, because the landing was aesthetic at the same time that it was astonishing. The plane was like a beautiful big bird. With those flares...