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...bills himself as "the WHITE people's choice" for Governor, and he runs on a platform that has served him ever since he was a two-bit sheriff: "Fightin' the niggers and fightin' th' aristocrats, 'cept you don't have to fool with th' aristocrats no more...
...pointless documents. Says a woman, exasperated to find herself in love with him: "What do you think you are, a saint?" That is precisely the point about Antoine Montés: he is a scarecrow and a chronic victim, but he is also a kind of saint-a holy fool...
...rapid development of nuclear power and the growth of radioactive stockpiles must be controlled by fool-proof regulation, two Harvard professors told the state legislative committee on public health yesterday. Harold A. Thomas, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering declared it the duty of the State Health Department to evaluate the current danger of radioactivity, and to regulate atomic substances if necessary...
...assertions aside, have been leaving the studio too fast. There are those who declare that Picasso is at last treating his mesmerized public to the joke skeptics accused him of playing as early as the 1900's. This, however, is difficult to accept. If the man has begun to fool anyone he has first gulled his own ego. These latest statements are fully as ingenuous as the most taut of his analytical cubist masterpieces, even if they are lacking in other respects...
...academics, of which any fool can find evidence by consulting the Sunday listings, began when human knowledge became so complex that the population was divided into two categories: the Expert and members of the general public. If the Expert's superior erudition fails to emerge during a program, we are told that we must blame its short duration--for there is seldom enough time. The general audience, blankly glazed before the home screen, is of course content to take the Expert's credentials as sufficient evidence that whatever he says is accurate. Whereas the humble citizen can express only opinions...