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Professor Schorling calmly admits that his program would probably treble educational budgets. He adds: "The U.S. spent more on chewing gum last year than on children's books. Liquor cost two or three times what the country paid out for education...
Passenger facilities at airports are usually inadequate or worse. Chicago's is "a slum. Chewing gum, orange peel, papers and cigar butts strew the floor around the stacks of baggage. ... To rest the thousands there are exactly 28 broken-down leather seats. One must line up even for the rest rooms...
Manhattan's gum-chewing, lip-smacking Daily News had the last word. Said the News: "Memoirs is [Edmund Wilson's] first score on the best-seller list, and the only reason it was there for several weeks is because word got around that oh, boy, you ought to get a load of this...
...doctor, was positively not capable of muscling back into Chicago (as rumor had him). In fact, he was not capable of any thing much: paretic Al patted tennis balls into a net, was "probably unaware" of world events. Summarized the doctor brilliantly: "He's very fond of chewing gum...
...have revealed a tendency on the part of certain countries to play a dominating part in the organization to the detriment of the cause of peace and security." His audience of 18,000 cheered him to the roof. Outside the Garden, the cops boredly walked their beat, chomped their gum, guarding Mr. Gromyko's right to freedom of speech...