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...chair's a plum. Hugh Culkins--we bring a Hey Hey and Ho Ho. Just one more reminder: That's stock's got to go. To veep Robin Schmidt and George Putnam as well On Mass Hall's behalf we'll just bid you farewell. Here's a rest cure in case any arteries harden: Try sunning yourself in the Fly Club's big garden...
...minutes every evening in his White House exercise room, he has gained 5 Ibs. ("muscle is heavier than fat") and added almost two inches to his chest. The Rancho del Cielo physical regimen-wood chopping, fence building and horseback riding-was familiar, but who knew about the cure-all mental effects? "There's something that clears your senses in the out of doors . . . It gives you the right attitude . . . [Riding provides] a different perspective on life itself. It is a tonic, really, refreshing both the body and the mind." Finally came the real, rousing presidential message...
Luck's the cure that finds a junior guard who hasn't missed a foul shot all year taking the two shots...
...spare-part inventory. He offered only mild condemnation of those who perpetrated the ripoffs: "We have not found any criminal intent, but the companies should have known the prices were unreasonable." He blamed the overpricing on "clericalization," which he said meant "no single person is responsible for it." The cure, he said, was more competition for contracts...
...inequalities of capitalism and class, coupled with a stinging indictment of contemporary Socialists: "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw toward them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England." Orwell not only sensed the distaste that unemployed miners would feel for such studied eccentricities, he shared the feeling. He also perceived something that was to reverberate in political writings for half a century: ascendant leftist theories threatened to replace one form of tyranny with...