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...Wyszynski, who figures she can read as well as anyone else, immediately rushed to Used Car Dealer Joseph De Gonge in Bristol, Conn., and plunked down 25 bananas as down payment. Aghast, De Gonge demurred. Incensed, Mrs. Wyszynski appealed to the Connecticut State Department of Consumer Protection. There followed grave official words about such matters as false advertising. Last week De Gonge compromised and accepted Mrs. Wyszynski's offer-not for the banana car, but for a 1962 Pontiac Tempest that otherwise would have cost her $850. Not surprisingly, the United Fruit Co. got into the act by supplying...
...TONSILS. For adults and for all victims of leukemia or hemophilia, tonsillectomy is a major operation with grave risks. Dr. Cahan has performed several tonsillectomies by freezing; within three weeks after the ten-minute treatment, the tonsils simply wither away...
Immortal Face. The U.S. gave Legson quite a reception, but he seems to have accepted everything that came his way with a grave and innocent equanimity. In the capital, he endured the standard tourist treatment, discovered the "sweet relationship" between waffles and syrup, stood in the Lincoln Memorial and "timidly waved at the immortal face." Skagit Valley College received him with a banner and a banquet. The family that "adopted" him had redecorated the spare bedroom. Neighbors stopped in with cakes. Huntley-Brinkley televised him. Some will pin the word "naive" on Legson's wide-eyed good will...
Lately Republican candidates have taken to pleading for votes on the rather barren grounds that a second party must be kept in the running. Patent political grows out of grave weaknesses in the character of the Republican Party, weaknesses which resulted in the Goldwater nomination. Rovere with his careful analysis of Goldwater and Goldwaterism, and Novak with his step-by-step account of the Goldwater victory in San Francisco, expose these weaknesses and help show what a faltering and confused animal the Republican elephant has become
...have plenty of laws on the books to deal with the illegal activities of the Klan--if we could only get them enforced. Repressive, arbitrary, and unconstitutional Congressional action is not the answer to any problem, no matter how grave. Joel L. Sellg...