Word: downrightness
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...score is close enough to scare Harvard into thinking twice about this Columbia team, but the statistics are downright frightening. Princeton, the team that most sports writers picked to finish second in the Ivy League this year, was outgained in total offense by Columbia, 409 yards...
...fact is that, at 58, Lyndon Johnson is too proud and probably too - inflexible to develop a new style that would be both engaging and in character. In any case, his concern over his image has made him morose, needlessly secretive, and at times downright peevish. Last week, in a typical display of pique when news of an impending trip leaked out, Johnson flatly denied any plans to appear this week before labor conventions in Atlantic City, St. Louis and Kansas City-though all three cities were already preparing for his arrival...
...workers and ill-advised psychology). Komer notes proudly that 12,106 Viet Cong have surrendered under the Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) amnesty program so far in 1966-nearly 1,000 more than for the whole of last year-but, again, ignores a sad record of Vietnamese in difference and downright hostility to rehabilitating yesterday's enemy...
...McCANN LTD. LIVE AT SHELLY'S MANNE HOLE (Limelight). Infusing this album is that welcome but all-too-infrequent spirit -humor. McCann gives the injection willfully in She Broke My Heart (But I Broke Her Jaw), wittily in That Was the Freak That Was, and with downright homey good nature in How's Your Mother? For counterpoint, he gives his fans a sensitive and lyrical treatment of Young and Foolish, and a sort of half-pop, half-bop vocal on All Alone...
...young men are selected for, or exempted from, military service. There is considerable grumbling about the fact that local draft boards, under the current system, tend to induct poor boys, Negroes and school dropouts, while sparing richer or brainier youngsters. Many Americans feel uneasy-and the draftee may feel downright angry-that the 971,000 active reservists and National Guardsmen are exempted from extended military service for the price of a brief training period and periodic home drills. Last week both the President and Congress took note, in different ways, of the rising dissatisfaction with the draft-which, the Defense...