Word: joes
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...victory over Dartmouth last weekend. I talked to some of the players before writing this column, and here's what they had to say about this week's upcoming game against Princeton at 1:30, Saturday...Right...Uh Huh...Well, good luck Saturday. And now, over to my colleague, Joe Garagiola, who will give you a rundown on the rest of the action taking place at Princeton...
Kennedy. The magic name. Thirty four years since the first of the brothers, Joe Jr., died when his plane exploded over England. Fifteen years since John was shot in Dallas. Ten years since Bobby was shot in Los Angeles. A lot of idealism has washed away since then; a lot of liberals have perceived a rising of the dark. And now Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., sometime teacher, sometime reviewer, sometime adviser, sometime historian, but always consummate storyteller, has come out with a massive remembrance of Bobby: Robert Kennedy and His Times. And the times, for Schlesinger, rise and fall very...
When Kennedy worked on the staff of Senator Joe McCarthy's Red-baiting committee--a job arranged by Kennedy's father--he was not, Schlesinger quickly points out, one who loudly accused and named traitors. Kennedy prepared a report calling for the cessation of all trade with mainland China, but says Schlesinger, "it was an able job, its facts well marshalled, its argument well organized, its tone cool." Schlesinger even manages to turn instances in which Bobby defended McCarthy around to Kennedy's advantage, saying the defense came from a "fondness" for McCarthy and an understanding of the old commie...
...House version cut the tax liability of such firms by $545 million; the Senate break was a more modest $310 million. This difference was resolved in very hard bargaining between an opponent of the tax break, Connecticut's Ribicoff, and an advocate of the measure, Louisiana's Joe Waggonner, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee. The result: a compromise costing the Treasury $381 million...
Marvin Molar, who walks on his hands and can balance on a finger; Herman Mack, who eats an entire car; Joe Lon Mackey, a homicidal sadist. This gallery of grotesques could only have been invented by Harry Crews, a Southern gothic novelist who often makes William Faulkner look pastoral by comparison...