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...project in San Francisco, for example, fell apart when it took in too many Negro "black power" advocates. Moreover, even the most imaginative ventures in precollege training have had their moments of pain and anxiety for the Upward Bounders. The program's national director, Richard T. Frost, argues that such disappointments and failures were inevitable in an experiment dealing with what he calls "the losers," whose intelligence is often indicated by "how imaginative they are in getting into trouble...
Since the Wallace fiasco, the two major parties have increased their already amply tight grip on American Politics. Except on the Congressional level, recent third party efforts have been soundly crushed. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. in New York, Dick Gregory in Chicago, David Frost in New Jersey, and Thomas Boylston Adams in Massachusetts have gone nowhere...
...plainclothes city officials check the quality of the food. The watch is careful, the punishment effective. Once, a market kibitzer recalls, a careless, stoop-shouldered vendor left a pushcart of tomatoes exposed to a fall frost. Although he knew that the centers of the vegetables had frozen, he was unwilling to lose a week-end take that might have amounted to $200. But, the next morning, when he tried to bluff his way past the officials, one kick by a robust inspector sent the frozen tomatoes pounding down the street like red rubber balls...
Itself the prosperous product of a 1960 merger of 101-year-old Henry Holt & Co. and two other houses, Holt depends on its school texts and other educational materials for 80% of its business. Its general book division, which has published Robert Louis Stevenson, William James and Robert Frost, has declined to 7%. For the rest, Holt has not only a growing business in educational movies and other teaching aids, but a group of four magazines, including that staunch sportsman's standby Field & Stream. Overall earnings last year rose 28%, to $6.6 million on sales of $70 million-enough...
...vulgar remarks of a columnist after F. O. Mathiessen's death. I like to remember the time when armed with nothing but quiet assurance he took an axe from the hands of a mentally disturbed student. I laugh to recall how his presidency of the Saturday Club led Robert Frost into a slip of the tongue at President Kennedy's inauguration...