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...rosy afterglow of Jack Kennedy's 400,000-vote landslide in New York, the state's bread-and-butter Democratic bosses confidently presumed that they would get their just desserts. But by last week it was clear that they were getting the back of Kennedy's hand. His victory, Kennedy figured, underscored New York's latent Democratic strength, emphasized the party's weakness in failing to win recent statewide elections. And the Kennedy forces have a vital stake in repairing that weakness: they want to cut Governor Nelson Rockefeller down to size when he comes...
Astonished Premier Eyskens protested that the workers "have been willfully and systematically misinformed" about the austerity program. "It is not true." he cried, "that the law aims at raising rents. It is not true that the purchase tax will raise the price of bread, butter and potatoes. It is not true that we will drastically cut unemployment payments." The bill, he said, would only eliminate payments to people who were not legitimate claimants (e.g., part-time workers, such as baby sitters...
...such goings on, the body is prepared for burial. In many societies the big toes of the corpse, or sometimes the ankles, are tied together, usually in order to keep the spirit of the dead from wandering around the house. Mongols anoint the forehead of the corpse with butter and then place a yellow willow leaf upon the same spot 72 times. The Buganda remove the intestines from the body, wash them in a kind of beer and save the beer, which is then imbibed by the dead man's widows. In most societies some sort of death dress...
...action. And in Minneapolis, Physiologist Keys-who helped draft the A.H.A. statement-called it an acceptable compromise, although it contained "some undue pussyfooting." Said he: "The A.H.A. had to get the facts out. A deal like this includes a great deal of commercial pressure. People in the meat, dairy, butter, and oils industries have billions at stake. They're very unhappy. The vegetable oil people are delighted. We couldn't care less...
...Toast, No Butter. Now and then, of course. Dr. Lenard suffers a slip of the stylus. Forgivably enough, he fumbles a number of Milne's choicer puns ("ambush" as a bush, "issue" as a sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they...