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...there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign, And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine; And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay. Perhaps this explains why Khrushchev & Con go to the expense that they do to keep the old goat on display...
...gardener winning and fleeing. Candy is at last able to give fully when her uncle decides he has a great need for her--under Daddy's hospital bed. The adorable girl is thus launched on her career: a true in-nocent abroad in the land of kooks and con...
Naturally, a high percentage of Crandall's calls have to do with integration, pro and con. He never hesitates. "Madam, you are a bigot," he barked at one caller. Last week he took on several waves of Negroes who were all for the stall-in scheme at the New York World's Fair. He said that sort of demonstration was "going too far, hitting the wrong people at the wrong time." In argument with a Negro girl last week, he asked: "Do you want me to accept you as an individual...
Huie deserves credit for destroying the Eatherly myth. But he enjoys making the kill a little too much. He browbeats poor Eatherly throughout most of the book, insinuates that Eatherly is an artful con-man who planned the whole hoax from the start. Actually, Eatherly seems more used than using. He fell into fame by chance and was exploited. Today he lives in gratifying notoriety in Galveston. Without Hiroshima, he would undoubtedly have been just one more anonymous neurotic, wishing somebody somewhere cared...
...continue in the competition. Boeing's design embodies a "variable sweep" wing that can be extended for takeoffs and landings and tucked back for supersonic flight. Because this is such a revolutionary wing arrangement, the airlines want to be able to fall back on Lockheed's con ventional delta-wing design should the Boeing design prove too difficult...