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...they suggest the abuses that deep faith so blindly perpetrates. The dicta of the Puerto Rican bishops were a mere public scandal, for they didn't manage to unseat Munoz Marin, and de Gaulle's proposal to subsidize parochial schools (a sharp break with French secular tradition) is mostly fodder for hard shell baptists. But the Bakimore YMCA, which denied space for a birth control clinic because the Church threatened to boycott the United Fund Appeal, like the Santa Fe Mexican who was threatened with excommunication if her son attended a non-parochial school, suggest the perpetual abuses...
Reeling on, Podgorny tried to say that drought compelled many districts to cut corn before the ears formed. Again Khrushchev struck: "But that can't be, because if you can see that the ears won't head out, you know it is no good for fodder either, because it has already withered." Podgorny: "Yes, that must have been an excuse to cut the corn...
...suppose that Old Jack has a right to his own privacy, but certainly there are items under the rubric of "private life" that are essential fodder for a well-informed citizen. For instance, we will miss the scores of the Kennedy clan's touch football games. It will be a fruitless life indeed without the President's latest golf score. How can the man presume to tell little Caroline the facts of life and not release the transcript to his constituency...
...than there are Congressmen. The big bureaus of the Associated Press and United Press International send upwards of 70,000 words a day out of Washington; Scotty Reston's New York Times bureau sends about half that much, including the official transcripts of conferences and speeches that are fodder for the U.S. newspaper with the greatest sense of historical record. In this unending flow from the Potomac, the Washington press corps-filling top spots in the news columns and on the newscasts every day-wields great power over public opinion...
...potatoes to the state instead of using them as pig feed, then slaughtered their pigs prematurely, thus sharply reducing the pork supply for 1959. State price fixing produced much the same results with cattle, and on top of all this, a severe drought last summer cut deeply into meager fodder stocks...