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...Saturday Review, the magazine has ventured into almost any area that has stirred Cousins' rather grab-bag curiosity: music, travel, science, education, business and communications. Sometimes these trails lead to pay dirt: Science Editor John Lear's 1959 exposé of the antibiotic drug industry ultimately forced the resignation of a divisional director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Sometimes they lead only into murky corners, such as last month's warning to U.S. space-program planners of the dangers of pushing into the unknown. Spain and Portugal tried exploring the unknown five and a half...
...five-carat stickpin). He keeps the feuds alive by spraying insults like flu germs. Of competing Producer Roger Stevens, he says: "I deliberately bid on bad plays, hoping he'll buy them. He'll hear I'm interested in some British turkey and he'll grab it. I think that...
...since the effect of the control commission, if it works, will be to freeze the status quo, Khrushchev doubtless wanted to grab what he could before that day came. In Kong Le he had a tough fighting man sitting on the country's crossroads. In the Pathet Lao, he had a supple organization that keeps gaining ground in the back country, no matter what government is in power. Even when it achieves the first goal of restoring peace, the U.S. will face the long-range challenge of reversing that losing trend...
...When Nevada finally went Democratic, Kennedy was within a handful of the necessary 269 electoral votes-but that handful was turning out to be a tough one to grab. What was more, predictions of a Kennedy victory assumed that he would win Illinois. But in Illinois, farmers were slicing down the fat lead that he had piled up in Chicago. In pivotal Minnesota, Kennedy's lead was down to a bare 30,000. With these developments obviously in mind, Vice President Nixon refused to make a flat concession when he went off to bed. Kennedy announced through Press Aide...
...Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge and Governor Nelson Rockefeller had joined in a massive last-minute effort to win New York. "We have all seen these circus elephants, complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins," said Kennedy, "who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them. Dick Nixon grabbed that tail in 1952 and 1956, but this year he faces the American people alone." In none of his sallies did Kennedy ever attack Dwight Eisenhower directly...