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...John Kennedy, the week was something of a grind. There were the big statistical messages, his first press conference in six weeks, a speech to Democratic fund raisers in Washington's National Guard Armory, a flying trip to Manhattan to see Acting United Nations Secretary-General U Thant. He did get to see Broadway's top musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, but otherwise he left the gracious life in the capable hands of his capable wife, Jackie Kennedy...
...mills of bureaucratic justice at the Federal Aviation Agency grind somewhat slower than Mach 2-but sure. Onto the agency's docket for "careless" piloting went none other than the FAA Administrator himself, ex-Navy Jet Jockey Najeeb Halaby, 46, who a month ago grazed a United Air Lines Viscount while taxiing out of Washington's National Airport. Squeaked one of the mice in charge of chasing the cat: "The case is being processed in the same way as for any airman...
...hopper is loaded with two pounds of regular grind. When the button is pressed, a dispenser drops nine grams of coffee into a stainless-steel brewing cup. An immersion coil heats water to 210°. The water is then fed into the brewing cup, mixes with the coffee, then drains out into a second brewing cup below that contains the moist grounds from the last cup that was made. Finally, the coffee drains on through a spout into the user...
...Umbrella. Under the umbrella of antiCommunism, many of the ultra-rightists pursue their own special goals and grind their own axes, ranging from respectable conservative politics and economics through segregation, anti-fluoridation, isolationism, higher tariffs and income tax repeal. Federal income tax, says Dr. Carleton Campbell, a veteran ultra who organized the recent Greenwich meeting, is "one of the steps on the Communist chart to take over a country" by taxing the middle class into impotence. "Our goal is to prevent world government," says Merwin K. Hart, president of the National Economic Council. "And we don't like fluoridation...
...Lenny Bruce. With knowledgeability gained during her career as a tank nightclub comedienne, Professor Marr lectures her pupils: "Keep your eyes on the audience at all times. Learn how to look at one man and take your clothes off for him. Not too much bump and not too much grind-that's passé and went out with Minsky...