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...done an honest day's work since he earned "810 an hour" delivering groceries at 15. Once Lassiter spotted a "mark" 40 points in a 100-point match, and the fellow pocketed 58 balls before he even got a chance to shoot. Wimpy calmly chalked his cue and ran 100 balls...
Significantly, the Communist capitals were silent until they noticed the fuss that was being raised elsewhere. Only then did Peking weigh in with a blast against America's "fascist cannibals." Hanoi, which must have been aware for months that gas was being used, belatedly picked up the cue from Britain and deplored the "barbarity...
...Defeated, in the House, a proposal to give U.S. Supreme Court Justices a $3,000 pay raise (to $42,500). Taking its cue from Missouri's Democratic Congressman Paul C. Jones, who bawled, "Let's vote it down and show the Supreme Court what we think of them." The House did just that...
...reportedly pays keen personal attention to the Viet Cong intelligence organization, headquartered in Hanoi under the title of "Central Research Agency" (Cue Nghien-Cuu Trung-Uong). Three special C.R.A. centers handle operations not only in South Viet Nam but in Cambodia and Laos as well. Terrorists and saboteurs receive a special six-month course in Haiphong, learning how to blow up everything from ships to oil storage tanks. One pint-size James Bond named Tran Van Bui was out fitted with an automatic pistol (plus silencer), explosives and a small knife that could inject poison...
Taking the Cue. As Registrar Hood appeared last week, Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold, a member of the commission, leaned toward him and said: "I hand you a copy of Section 182 of the Mississippi state constitution. For the benefit of the commission, would you give us a reasonable interpretation of it?" Hood read silently, then said, "Well, it means that the power to tax corporations and their property . . ." Interrupted Griswold: "I didn't ask you to read it-I asked you to interpret...