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...twin four-posters. He rises at 10 a.m., has his daily Turkish bath and, in winter, jogs around his property wearing three sweaters and an overcoat. He has taken up skiing, and he falls all over the slopes like a six-year-old, but he is trying hard to conquer the sport. In warm weather, he plays tennis and does calisthenics every day on the lawn. Sometimes he sips bourbon, which he once called "the only good thing America produces," but he never smokes and will not permit visitors to light up in his presence...
...World's Best Seller." Only the world of crime is left as "a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event." Boorstin's buckshot is indiscriminate and incessant; he blasts away at such riddled targets as publicity handouts and celebrity endorsements and searches out new underworlds to conquer. Museums merely conceal the "vital organs of a living culture," air travel "robs me of the landscape," highway travel discourages wayside stops. As a way of "meeting new people," sighs Boorstin, "even hitchhikers are slowly becoming obsolete...
...Heaven, to be sure, but your passage there might well be expedited by a Soviet bullet . . . Here is a secularization of the unique relationship between man and God. Be good and ye shall have nothing to fear from Soviet imperialism. It does not follow. The Communists know how to conquer good people too." Syndicating Buckley was the inspiration of Harry E. Elmlark, general manager of New York's George Matthew Adams Serv ice, whose wares run a gamut from comic strips and cooking advice to inspirational columnists, e.g., Bishop Fulton J. Sheen...
...very means that man uses to conquer or prevent disease have a way of turning on him unless he uses caution...
...Public Health Service announced last week an all-out effort to conquer some of the assorted sniffles, coughs and other discomforts generally but misleadingly known as the "common cold." The core of the program, said Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, will be to develop and test vaccines against viruses already known to cause many of the infections that afflict the average American three or more times a year, keep an estimated 125,000 workers (and probably even more schoolchildren) at home every day, cost industry about $3 billion a year, and spur the sale of at least $100 million worth...