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...what is life but a mouthful of air? Said the rambling, shambl'ing travelling man; Yet all the lovely things that were Live, for I saw them dancing there...
...Members of the House, who had ex pressed great skepticism before approv ing the creation of the Administration's Peace Corps a year ago, wholeheartedly praised the Corps while voting 316-70 to increase its personnel from 2,400 to 6,700, boost its budget from $30 million...
...landscape. But IBM engineers decided not to get into ex pensive competition with the radio and TV programs, the phone calls, and all the other electronic chitchat, which now jump in short line-of-sight hops from coast to coast. Instead, the computer men are mak ing use of a basic but seldom used proper ty of microwaves...
Aboard Whirlaway and Citation, Arcaro became the only jockey to win rac ing's famed Triple Crown* twice. He was a record five-time winner of the Derby. He posted six victories in the Preakness and six in the Belmont Stakes, for an other pair of records. Last year Arcaro rode Kelso, one of the greatest racers ever, to a Horse of the Year title, winning seven victories in nine starts to collect...
...avoids the smugness of the satisfied satirist - "the world is disgusting (but I am clever)." In fact there are no personal obtrusions, nothing of the gracious, 70-year-old Southern gentlewoman who in the 20 years since her last book has seemed to occupy herself chiefly with be ing a charming chatterer at literary gather ings. Her testament is objective and her verdict is unemotional: the world is a place of foulness and fools...