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...Today, says Executive Editor Richard Clarke, 64, "we find ourselves giving a hell of a lot of space to foreign affairs because that's what the public 'is interested in." Patterson's towering editorial rages have largely disappeared, and his quiddities, which persisted out of habit, now seem to be receding. (Although he supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt for three elections, the captain got so mad at F.D.R. just before Pearl Harbor that his paper's persistent anti-Roosevelt editorials estranged the two old friends.) The paper has become conventionally Republican now-and even peaceable. "Certainly nobody...
...this way. How would you like to swim in the same pool with one of them?" This was in Ohio, remember. Another time, my high school American history class spent an entire month on the subject of alcohol--everything from how to make it to how to break the habit--and then took a test to determine who should represent the school on the state-wide alcohol examination...
...commission looked long and hard at the British and Continental European ways of handling addiction. Britain, with almost one-third the population of the U.S., claims to have only 400 to 500 addicts and no problem of an illicit drug trade or larceny or prostitution to finance the habit. In Britain, a physician may prescribe morphine, or even heroin (which no U.S. doctor can prescribe for any purpose), to a thoroughly "hooked" addict, who then gets his shots at a chemist's shop for two shilling's (28?) apiece. Most Western European countries report comparable addiction rates, have...
...agree with him that the Age of Reason infused the European mind with a critical spirit and a habit of analytical thinking. Faith in divine revelation was succeeded by belief in individual experience. The supernatural was discarded in favor of the natural. Acceptance of authority changed to defiance of authority. Reverence for king and church was transformed into an impassioned ardor for "liberty" and "the rights of the individual." A new element was in the air: doubt. The Age of Reason had unbolted one of the doors of intellectual history. From that time...
...B.A.A. Marathon four times in the past seven years, and 1959 Winner Eino Oksanen. a hawk-nosed Helsinki detective, was back as a heavy favorite. Slim U.S. hopes were pinned to familiar Veteran John J. Kelley, 30, a Groton, Conn., schoolteacher who won in 1957 but has a habit of running a strong second...