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With his Lotus finally functioning perfectly and nine points chalked up toward the 1965 Grand Prix championship, Clark quickly forgot the pain in his back. "It feels good to be back on top again," he beamed. Come June, factory mechanics will replace his Lotus' 195-h.p. V-8 Climax engine with a hush-hush 16-cylinder job that is supposed to have something of the same effect as gluing two of the old engines together. "Nothing much to it," shrugged a Lotus engineer. "We are simply picking up a bit more power, that...
...about all Jordan has proved is that he will never be any great shakes as a Senate investigator. In hearings only last week, Jordan actually forgot that he was chairman of the committee, cleared his throat and began: "Er, Mr. Chairman ..." A further example of general ineptness came when the committee tried to pursue the charge that Democratic Wheelhorse Matt McCloskey had indirectly made a $35,000 payoff to Baker. They put McCloskey's auditor on the stand, only to discover that they had the wrong auditor...
That Sartre conjures up emotions for his youth tells us more than that he forgot what actually happened. It also suggests and extraordinary ambivalence to whatever emotions he actually experienced. This is a man who from childhood onward was so selfconscious that he firmly believed whatever he did was a pose. At the age of seven, "I led two lives, both of them untrue. Publicly I was an imposter: the famous grandson of the celebrated Charles Schweitzer; alone, I sank into imaginary moping. I corrected my false glory by false incognito. I had no trouble shifting from one role...
Author of much of the Doty Report, Finley expressed surprise that the Faculty was even considering abolition of the Gen Ed requirement. "We on the Doty Committee forgot about the whole generation of the Faculty that can't remember how bad things were before the Redbook," he said...
Minuteman (looking back): We are the Minuteman and Minutewoman. We're waiting for the MDC, and this is our dime to call Mrs. Finley. We forgot our whistle...