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When the monitors did meet, O'Donoghue's legal strategy was voted down. Monitor Smith, unaccountably reversing his former stand, accused O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting Hoffa." Then last fortnight Monitor Maher announced he would retire because of heart trouble. Hoffa named as his successor Detroit Lawyer William E. Bufalino, president of Teamster Local 985, a jukebox operators' and car washers' union described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying upon workingmen and women to provide personal aggrandizement for Mr. Bufalino and his friends...
...Significantly, Goldwater was named last fortnight as the presidential choice of South Carolina's minuscule Republican Party.) Items from the dictionary: Air-What you hear [hair] with...
...Fortnight ago, after his bishop sternly forbade him to receive Nikita, Canon Kir reluctantly agreed to obey. But neither church nor state had any real confidence that the canon could resist if Nikita came to call. Accordingly, on the morning of the day Khrushchev was due to arrive in Dijon, two police cars pulled up in front of Canon Kir's house and hustled the furiously gesticulating priest off for a long drive in the country...
...Only fortnight ago Dr. J. Harold Burn of Oxford suggested that the lift usually associated with smoking may be caused by an adrenalin-related hormone called nore-pinephrine?the same hormone that raises the hair on the tail of a scared cat. But most scientists agree that smoking becomes a habit because of emotional compulsions rather than any physical need...
...health issue is at the heart of the matter, the industry continues to deny adamantly any direct or "causal" cancer-smoking link. It has spent $3,700,000 to set up the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, which is widely regarded as only a smokescreen for the industry. But fortnight ago two reports came out from medical groups partly financed by the committee, holding that 1) smoking taxes damaged hearts, and 2) tobacco users absorb 90% of the nicotine to which they are exposed...