Word: claimed
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...needs more and more, lots more, "feeble witticisms" to counteract the gloom and despair spread by the gloomy, solemn, woebegone, doleful pessimists who claim to be Americans...
...Arab and Israeli air forces fly planes of basically similar performance. Why, then, are the Israelis able to claim five Arab aircraft shot down for every loss of their own? (See THE WORLD...
...intriguing report that Dinis was investigating last week was the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader's claim that on the night of the accident, 17 long distance phone calls from Chappaquiddick and Edgartown were charged to Kennedy's telephone credit card. Five of the calls, said the Union Leader, were placed before midnight. Even acknowledging the strong anti-Kennedy prejudices of the right-wing newspaper, its report does have a certain precision that lends verisimilitude. The paper stated, for example, that the five premid-night calls were placed from the party cottage to 1) the Kennedy family compound...
Doubtful Swim. Columnist Anderson's claim that Kennedy did not, in fact, go to Edgartown alone after the accident seems more plausible. It is almost unthinkable that Joe Gargan and Lawyer Paul Markham would stand by while Kennedy plunged into the 500-ft. channel, his back in a brace and his mind in a daze. It seems more likely that Markham and Gargan "borrowed" a small boat from a pier some 200 yds. from the ferry landing and rowed Kennedy to the Edgartown side. According to this theory, Markham and Kennedy walked to the Senator's room...
...gone out as well, despite the fact that even the lowliest members are often millionaires. The Government provides one good reason. If a man spends much more than he shows on his income tax return, the IRS can nail him for tax fraud. Few of the bosses thus claim or openly spend much more than would a moderately successful businessman. The ancient, somewhat puritanical code of the Mafia, which dislikes display, provides another reason for simple style. The late New York boss Vito Genovese, for example, used to drive a two-year-old Ford, spent little more than...