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...talk to 50.000 people at Rice University Stadium. Said the President: "Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the Industrial Revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to flounder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it. We have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace . . . We choose to go to the moon in this...
...horseback and of the hour, the great savior, is Molester Mole, a grubby mind with a powerful, if threadbare message. He is the Flounder of the Jack Acid Society, its spirited, selfless leader. He guides the Deacon when that Godsymp's flesh weakens, and it is Mole who prepares the Society's blacklist. The list of all the suspect members of the swamp is quite comprehensive; it even includes Mole's friend, the Deacon...
...observers pick the Dodgers to win, but I think Walt Alston is capable of of keeping his multi-million dollar crew out of the running. Alston has a remarkable knack for platting young ballplayers who need to play regularly. Unless he is replaced by Durocher when the old Bums flounder in July, he may single-handedly keep Frank Howard and Willie Davis from becoming major league stars...
...pots and pans, cocktail glasses, an ice chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw hat-and a set of military uniforms. Then, mixing himself an oldfashioned, he settled down to begin his two weeks' summer training with the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Group...
officials figured that the Germans were shrewdly saving their concessions for the new administration. Last week Economic Affairs Minister Ludwig Erhard knocked these hopeful expectations flatter than a Flensburg flounder. His big black cigar jutting out of his pink-cheeked face, Erhard formally handed U.S. Ambassador Walter Dowling a seven-page financial aid plan that called for little or no real contributions from Germany's overstuffed pocketbook...