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...U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration. "I wouldn't have him on my faculty." University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater's former economic adviser, dismisses him as a phrasemaker?"old wine in a new bottle." Purrs Conservative William F. Buckley, a personal friend but philosophical foe: "Econo mists I know say everything he writes on economics is either platitudinous or wrong?or both." Sneers Jacoby: "Sure, his books sell well. So did Valley of the Dolls...
...campaign song opened the convention--"Onward with Model Cities Go/Onward we go to meet the foe..."Residents voted by waving yellow cards, often while munching free sandwiches and shepherding restless children...
...those little ironies of fate that General Vo Nguyen Giap's name contains the Vietnamese words for force (Vo) and armor (Giap). The commander of North Viet Nam's armed forces and the overlord of the Viet Cong, he is a dangerous and wily foe who has become something of a legend in both Viet Nams for his stunning defeat of the French at Dienbienphu. He is one of the principal developers-along with Mao Tse-tung and Cuba's late Che Guevara-of the art of guerrilla warfare, a tactician of such talents that U.S. military...
...that, rather than being superfluous, the ban on burning or destroying the cards might well be seen as a legitimate way for Congress to ensure that registrants carry their cards at all times. Most definite of all was Justice Hugo Black, who has long been known as an uncompromising foe of restrictions on free speech. Card burning did not seem to him to be covered by the First Amendment guarantee. Said he to the defense attorney at the close of the one and one-half hour session: "I'm trying to emphasize to you the difference between conduct...
...beginning there was Superman. Today, reproducing like oversexed mutants, there is a whole squadron of superduper do-gooders streaking across the TV screen. They are not only faster than a speeding bullet, but they can also do things like liquefy and multiply, or fell a foe with a laser-beam glance. The skies are guarded by Roger Ramjet, the seas by Marine Boy, the barnyard by Super Chicken. What they can't handle, Granite Man, Frogman, Coil Man, Spider Man, Liquid Man, Aquaman, Multi Man and Birdman can. Yet of all the offspring of TV's comic book...