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With evangelical eloquence and a country band, Jim Johnson stumped the state, attacking the "no-win" policy in Viet Nam, the evils of federal handouts, race riots in the big cities, and the "foreign-aid giveaway to every Hottentot country in the world." He promised that, if elected, he would cut taxes, give teachers a $500 pay raise and schoolchildren free textbooks, and bring more industry into the state. He also promised to bring prayers back to the schoolroom. "We're going to pray in our schools in this state," he declared, "and I don't believe Lyndon...
...worker became a signal for battle to opponents of the Secretary of Labor. John L. Lewis, caustic head of the United Mine Workers, called her "woozy in the head," adding that although she would make an excellent housekeeper she didn't know as much about economics "as a Hottentot does about moral...
...Forty years ago, the idea of there being a great English sculptor was as remote as a Hottentot becoming prime minister of Scotland," says one British artist. Today Great Britain has become a hotbed of new sculptors, with three museum shows in London currently devoted to their renaissance. Miraculous as the new flowering appears, the sculpture bloom began in the 1930s, when British artists found the seeds for their ideas on the Continent from such sources as Brancusi, Archipenko and Picasso, repotted their findings in good English earth, and began producing a hardy native growth...
...through life collecting every available "experience." The more intellectual collect experiences, hold them up to the light, and dissect them meticulously; others simply absorb experiences indescriminately. Such people might find what they consider valuable experience in hitch-hiking to Peru, working on a garbage scow or sleeping with a Hottentot. Marijuana provides just one more piece of bric-a-brac for their emotional trophy case...
...fired air conditioners to marinas and country clubs. Last week Socony bought nine plants producing paints and industrial coatings from Martin Marietta Corp. Some other companies wander farther afield: Kerr-McGee bought a railroad tie producer, Tidewater a uranium mine in Wyoming and the exploration rights for diamonds in Hottentot Bay, South West Africa. Kern County Land Co., a California oil producer, gets more than half its gross revenues from turning out auto parts...