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...suit to put a lid on it is White Stag's Speedo. The all-nylon suit, worn by all but one of the 1968 Olympic Gold Medal winners, can even be had with a racing stripe down the side. Speedo wearers do not even have to make the crawl from Dover to Calais: the suit looks authentic enough to get there...
...sense of history, Fuller is an old man in a hurry. No idea interests him for more than a historical instant. He begins-and stays-far aloft, in a jet's-eye view of a world where the fastest vehicle appears to crawl. From this vantage point he views the phenomenon of U.S. industrialization. He divides industrial growth into three "telescoping" periods: 1850 to 1890, 1890 to 1920, 1920 to 1940. Each, he notes, was shorter than its precedent; each contained part of its successor. Yet from the beginning "people thought of changes as normal adjuncts to an agricultural...
...Southerner of Nixon's philosophical persuasion if he met "the high legal, judicial and ethical standards which we believe are required." Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore introduced a resolution accusing Nixon of an "assault on the integrity of the Senate." Agnew's riposte was that Gore was "trying to crawl out of a difficult situation...
...delighted about stirring up political storms, but he certainly thrives on them. His personality itself is something of a storm; people feel that it is heavy, but not unpleasant weather when he is around. Always approachable and cheerfully argumentative, he can, as a friend puts it, "elevate a pub crawl into an intellectual experience." With a memory that is rapacious for detail, he can reel off poetry as if it were statistics and make statistics sound much like poetry. He is friendly even with his ideological opponents like Arthur Burns, the conservative chairman of the Federal Reserve Board...
...worn off. Politicians are, however, again arousing passions, private white academies are proliferating, and resistance to more integration is growing. Such calm advice as that of Alabama Superintendent of Education Ernest Stone is sorely needed. Says he: "If they'll let me keep the public school system, I'll crawl on my belly and eat grass and crow until doomsday." Studies of Southern integration show that black children profit academically from the experience. Black students in a tenth grade in Rome, Ga., were tested in 1965 and found to be performing at seventh-through ninth-grade levels. A test...