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...votes. To the north in Uttar Pradesh, Socialist Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, who took his defeat at the hands of Nehru himself in last year's election, trounced a former government Information Minister. Worst slap of all came in another Uttar Pradesh constituency, where victory came to lean, acerbic Independent J. B. Kripalani, 76, the veteran Congress politician who had left the party to become Nehru's bitter...
...Lincoln himself provided a color guide when in 1859 he sent an autobiographical sketch to Jesse W. Fell describing himself as "in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh weighing on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes-No other marks or brands recollected...
What worries New York newspaper executives is the fact that circulation and advertising losses will be harder to recoup during the traditionally lean summer. "I would have picked a better 114 days for the strike," says Thayer drily. "Say June, July and August." The Trib has been offering "piggyback" discounts: cut-rate deals under which advertisers get a half-page in the daily Trib plus a half-page in the Sunday edition for what a full-page ad in the daily edition would cost. And adding pressure on the cost side is the Trib's plan...
...government; to the Nasserites because he has been a longtime admirer of Egypt's strongman and believes in unity at all costs. At week's end, the regime in neighboring Iraq was also giving ground to the Nasserites. The entire Baath-dominated Cabinet resigned, but lean, balding Premier Hassan Bakr was commissioned to form a new government, presumably one with greater pro-Nasser representation, which might forestall street demonstrations...
...means to these ends were to lean heavily on the history and philosophy of science, for, "The claim of general education is that the history of science is part of science. So are its philosophy, its great literature, and its social and intellectual context.... The historical development of the subjects considered in our courses, therefore, should occupy an important place in their design." In fact, the Redbook seemed wary of teaching the substance of a science directly; it preferred to embed the science in a matrix of history and philosophy...