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...will lead-and control-the New York delegation to the 1956 national convention, and he is not a man to waste his time on token political gestures. New York's political sons (by reason of the state's 90-odd delegate votes and financial resources) have a habit of becoming serious contenders in presidential nominating politics...
...ceaselessly scraping away at the individual that you discover the man," he insists. "Self-examination does not teach us about man, but merely about the man who is in the habit of examining himself...
Greetings from Japan. Taking note of Howard's globe-trotting habit, Model Judy Coate draped a lei around his neck (see cut) and the tape was turned on for "Japanese opinion" of Editor Howard...
...ladies known him better, the prince in his new career might not have seemed so surprising. Ever since he was a child, he has made it a habit to confound the imperial household. At four, he broke into the public press by publishing an original essay ("The horse is a very clever animal. You beat him with a whip, and he quickly jumps"). For years after that, he was known as the Prince of Nursery Tales...
Because there are (and have been for many years) great differences in smoking practices among the several countries, researchers have a hard time relating Dr. Pascua's figures directly to the cigarette habit. Item: the U.S., with many of the heaviest cigarette smokers, had the eighth highest attack rate but the second lowest rate of increase. (Possible reason: the U.S. may have passed its period of sharpest increase before the 1948-52 period.) Says Copenhagen's Dr. Johannes Clemmesen, noting that Denmark's four-year increase in lung cancer among males was 49%: "The higher a country...