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Father or Son? Franco is likely to remain silent on the succession. He is playing a rather coy game with Don Juan and his family, dropping a hint here, a favor there, without committing himself...
...found that rats will shun sweetened water, one of their favorite liquids, if they are dosed with radiation while they try to drink. This hardly proved that rats can sense radiation directly. Quite possibly they had been made slightly sick, associated their malaise with the sweetened water. But the hint seemed worth following...
This is not to say that Harvard students laugh at anything at all. They do not, for instance, laugh at the Lampoon, and the 'Poonies have taken the hint and gone off to exploit the more responsive (and more lucrative) markets of women's magazines and rock and roll records. With these new imperialistic ventures, their weekly dinners, their memories of a Golden Age, and their ingenious persecutions of the well-bred young men who compete for editorial positions, Lampoon editors maintain a state of good humor beyond the wildest imaginings of their Harvard readership (if it still exists...
...With a hint of his old testiness, Khrushchev protested that Russian rancor at the U-2 incident in 1960 has "not healed yet" and that if Kennedy were to visit Russia, it "would put our guest in a difficult position." (Actually, Westerners in Moscow know that, on the contrary, John Kennedy or any other U.S. President would get an overwhelming popular reception from the Russian people, would thereby embarrass the regime.) Khrushchev added nonetheless that there are "no reasons for serious disputes between Russia...
...criticism that the Common- has been leaderless since his election Volpe can point out the Code of he established. To the suggestion, he is a figurehead, he can counter his resolution of the two abortive strikes; and to the hint that he is -noting," he can note the increased-efficiency of the Industrial Accident...