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...Massachusetts, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, 50, faces a redoubtable opponent: Representative John Kennedy, 35, a war hero,† a good Congressman and an excellent campaigner. Catholic Jack Kennedy has spent the last year charming Massachusetts' voters, lately at tea parties organized by women Democrats. They brew a big dish of tea, invite scores of citizens to meet his mother and his pretty sisters. Then Jack shows up to shake hands. The "internationalist" son of "isolationist" Businessman Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (1937-40), Jack has deep family roots in Massachusetts...
...boil, the doctor suggested, it will cooperatively lose consciousness at between 80° and 90° F. Better yet, it can be anesthetized by immersion in a solution made by mixing a pound of table salt in two quarts of cold water. After one minute in this heady brew, it passes out cold, stays groggy for from three to five minutes, and can be boiled with no "visible signs of discomfort...
Theories disagree about this dense, degenerate matter. Some think that it is a brew of atoms that have been stripped of circling electrons. Since nearly all the bulk of a normal atom (as known on earth) is empty space inside the orbits of its electrons, the stripping-down process would allow nuclei and electrons to be packed much more tightly...
...first time that the docile Bamangwato had thumbed their noses at a creature so Godlike as the Great White Queen's commissioner. Batho marched off, his upper lip aquiver. He issued an order: "No more Kgotlas." The Bamangwato sat back guzzling Kaffir beer (a native brew made of yeast, marmalade, syrup and raisins) and took no notice. But when Batho sent a platoon...
Scorning last year's apathy, they have formed several enthusiastic groups which do everything from inspecting Maxst doctrine to caressing the palate with vintage brew. There is no pressure to join in House activities, however, and all of the new societies are small in number and serious in their pursuits...