Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Core of Love. The generation shows the same empirical approach to love as many do to drugs. Says Billie Joe Phillips, 23, a Georgia coed who writes a twice-weekly column for the Atlanta Constitution: "For most of the girls in my age group who are married, it would have been better if someone had given them a gross of prophylactics, locked them in a motel room for two weeks, and let them get it out of their systems." Boys and girls together reject the post-Renaissance notion that passion, like a chrysanthemum, blooms best when vigorously pinched off. Says...
...been argued that what seemed like radical new policies to Moley were already implicit in the First New Deal. But for Moley the break was total. Not only did he turn Republican, but in a Newsweek magazine column, and in several books, he has continued to lick the wounds that his political philosophy suffered during that brief alliance. Much in this volume only echoes what Moley wrote in After Seven Years, an equally unhappy appraisal of the New Deal published...
...Harvard pretends that the forms are to be filled out honestly. Each reporting form sent out by the Comptroller's Office lists, under a column headed "committed effort," the percentage of the researcher's salary that the Government pays or that Harvard uses to meet its cost sharing requirements. In the next column, headed "actual effort," the researcher is more or less invited to put down the same figure. He knows, for example, that if he comes up with a smaller percentage, the University could be required, after some future audit, to pay back part of the grant...
...emergency meeting in Cairo, the Arab League's Defense Council once again demanded that Hussein bolster his border defenses with troops from neighboring Arab countries; and once again, the little King refused, realizing that such troops would be a potential fifth column that could bring down his throne. That was small consolation to the angry, anxious Palestinian refugees who live close to the frontier with Israel. They demand protection from Israeli attack, and they do not care who supplies it. If the King will not, many of them are in a mood to turn to another ruler who will...
Actually, there is no mystery here. Bennett Alfred Cerf, 68, is an open book. Board chairman of Random House, he is the nation's best-known book publisher-better known than many of the authors he serves. He is also perpetrator of a syndicated joke column and author of 21 joke and riddle books that have sold more than 5,000,000 copies, and a longtime panelist on that somewhat tiresome but seemingly indestructible TV parlor game, What's My Line? Wherever he goes, autograph hounds bark at his heels. Little ol|i ladies leap out of dark...