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...beat as you seem to think or the test is time & i dont mean your publication-which is only another type of literature, feel free to print howl, moan or anything else. listen beat does not always mean unwashed or workless-i have 2 exhibitions here within the next fortnight-one at "city lights." gregory corso [is] first angel poet of america. stop laughing at artists...
Guilty as he might be, Tabakchali had nonetheless won the sympathy of the whole Arab world. Throughout his trial, Egypt's Kassem-hating press and radio had hailed him and his fellow defendants as martyrs. In a more practical effort to help, Nasser's intelligence network fortnight ago bloodily disposed of a double agent who had been scheduled to testify against Tabakchali (TIME, Sept. 21). And in Iraq itself, Tabakchali's dignified conduct during the trial had won him an outspoken following, inspired for the first time unabashed criticism of Kassem in Baghdad...
Theoretically the White Sox should not be able to get off the ground. Until a fortnight ago, when they gambled that Pittsburgh's Ted Kluszewski had conquered his bad back and picked up the muscular first baseman on waivers, the White Sox did not have a man who could clout the long ball. The team trails the majors in home runs with a measly 81; team batting average is .252, sixth in the league...
...definition, it was no news when a snake bit a man in St. Joseph, Mo. a fortnight ago, and little more newsworthy when, thanks to antisnakebite serum, the man recovered. But last week the snake made news: it died as a result of the bite it had inflicted...
...highs, all aircraft stocks are well down. General Dynamics has dropped from 66½ to 48½, Martin from 62½ to 38¼, Douglas from 59¼ to 46, North American from 52⅝ to' 37¼, Grumman from 30¼ to 24⅜. In the past fortnight, nine aircraft stocks scraped new 1959 lows. Among them: McDonnell, Bell, Temco, Northrop, United Aircraft...