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...many a practiced politician, Jack Kennedy's punishing grind seemed absurd : running virtually unopposed, he could, if he wanted to, claim New Hampshire's eleven delegate votes with the merest amenities - a speech or two, a TV appearance, and many thanks. But Kennedy was doing it the hard, handshaking way for two reasons: 1) he hopes to get a bigger primary vote than Estes Kefauver got in 1956 (when 30% of the state's Democrats turned out) and thus convince his party's skeptics of his popular support; 2) his own example was an opportunity...
...oculists; status seeking led them to style themselves ophthalmologists (which few patients can spell or pronounce). The man who made corrective lenses was an optician. An intermediate group developed, called doctors of optometry, who often did the eye measurement (refraction) on which the prescription was based. Opticians can still grind lenses but are forbidden to do the refraction...
Writing the sanitized speeches has become a profitable business in itself. In Manhattan alone, a dozen ghostwriting agencies grind out hundreds of orations a year, collect up to $1,000 a copy. In Cleveland, the National Reference Library publishes booklets of canned speeches (price $4 to $20), tailors individual ones at higher prices, claims 100,000 contented customers. For businessmen who want to be safe and save money at the same time, some trade associations offer speech kits to all (favorite theme for 1960: Businessmen Must Break into Politics). Companies such as Esso Standard Oil and Bemis Bros. Bag have...
...ordinarily result in more harm than good." He feels that "local control has clearly outlived its usefulness," not only because of antiquated taxation and uneven standards, but because it is less democratic than national control. Reason: local control often falls to local bullies and "assorted interests with axes to grind." Not so national control-if it is "in the hands of teachers, where it belongs...
Communist Castles. Rugged as this daily grind is, more and more Muscovites are turning into dachniks. Private frame dwellings (individually owned, but on land leased from the state) arise in numbers almost as great as the grey blocks of new city apartments that grow in melancholy monotony in Moscow's residential districts. Letting or subletting dachas is one of the few flourishing forms of private enterprise left in Russia. Last week the Moscow press charged that a food-store manager had unlawfully bought a twelve-room, seven-porch dacha in a scientists' colony, added two more dachas inside...