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...brand of socialism that leftists talk scornfully of as "milk and water" ("If we want to snore ourselves to Sweden, this is the way"). As his closest advisers, he prefers university-trained economists rather than the men who have risen from factory and mine. "The day of the cloth cap in the Labor Party is over," laments one working-class ex-minister. Bustling about the country with the air of a don doing his best to be folksy, Gaitskell has not been able to match Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's glamor, but he has earned solid respect...
...lungs as simply breathing into them after clearing the mouth, throat and windpipe of obstructions. For rescuers who cannot stomach direct contact with a person who may be dead, a plastic tube is already on the market. Or, says the Red Cross, they can breathe through a porous cloth...
...marked beneath its bark with the shape of a conch shell and a wheel; holes must be found beneath it to show that snakes have lived there. When the tree is carefully cut down, selected carpenters carve the three images. A priest-his eyes blindfolded, his hands covered with cloth-transfers from the old idol to the new its essential mystery; some say it is a box of quicksilver, some that it is bones from Vishnu himself...
...Actually, his words were stronger.)" Even Tom Dewey, a Nixon supporter, urged him to withdraw. Yet Nixon went on to make his now-classic tide-turning defense speech-he threw in everything including St. Patrick, his children's dog Checkers, and Pat Nixon's good old Republican cloth coat-and went off the air in tears, thinking that he had made a mess of it. Minutes later, Producer Darryl Zanuck called to deliver an old pro's verdict: "The most tremendous performance I've ever seen...
Ratiocination. On the second day, the tide turned. As newsmen sneakily cribbed from one another at tables covered with green (baze? baize? beise?) cloth, the girls were toppled by persiflage, ephelis, additament, cacolet. In the 22nd round, 13-year-old Elaine Hassell of Dallas, the last girl survivor, fluffed on porphyry (she guessed porfiree). Three boys remained: Allan L. Kramer, 13, of Lake Worth, Fla.; Robert Crossley, 13, of Norristown, Pa.; Joel Montgomery, 12, of Denver. And down went Kramer in Round 24; after negotiating quidnunc, eclectic, and sarcophagus, he missed ratiocination. The mellifluous pronouncer ("I give full value...