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...Guest. Into a junk-filled room atop an otherwise empty house in West London totters an old derelict named Davies. Clothes flap on his bony frame like weather-beaten posters on a board fence. A bristling compendium of social evils, he is dirty, mephitic, bigoted, violent, treacherous. "I been left for dead more than once," he rasps. For 15 years he has been trying to make a trip down to Sidcup "to get my papers. They prove who I am, I can't move without them papers...
...Missile Flap. Neither was Goldwater appreciative of Democratic defense policy, particularly in its increasing dependence on intercontinental missiles instead of SAC bombers. "I don't feel safe at all about our missiles," he told a press-conference questioner. "I wish the Defense Department would tell the American people how undependable the missiles in our silos actually are. I can't tell you-it's classified -and I'll probably catch hell for saying this...
Indeed, with such a wealth of reference Harvardiana, some brash readers have gone so far as to suggest that Mark Epernay, described on the cover-flap as "evidently a distinguished observer of politico-economic trends," is really the pseudonym of a Harvard professor. A few have even had the gall to mention--or, rather, whisper--the name of John Kenneth Galbraith. But that is patently ridiculous. Harvard professors are far too intellectual and have too many hour exams to mark, government officials to consult, and ambassadorial duties to attend to, to have the inclination or the time to write facetous...
...much of this college generation revels n Tarzan movies, aims to try LSD, and 'shacks up" on weekends as a matter of routine. It talks about sex-"the ultimate in communication"-so frankly hat Berkeley students recently asked he dispensary to please dispense contraceptives. Harvard's current flap over abuse of rules for girls visiting boys' rooms is hardly confined to Cambridge...
...lavish feast described by Petronius in a fragment of the Satyricon, a penetrating report of social life in the days of Nero. Trimalchio, the host, was a wealthy freedman with more farms "than a kite could flap over," and so many slaves that "not one in ten has ever seen his master...