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When it comes to criticizing the Johnson Administration, U.S. businessmen are careful not to shoot from the lip -in part because they fear Washington's great powers of retaliation. Yet more and more corporate executives are speaking up with increasingly candid criticism of the President's economic policies. They are not nearly so hostile to L.B.J. as they were years ago to F.D.R. or even to J.F.K. Their honeymoon with Lyndon Johnson is not quite over. But it has certainly lost a lot of that old glow...
Sinks, it appears, are too small and too low. They should be higher and wider. Present faucets should be replaced by a recessed fountain-type water source. The bowl should have a splash lip at the front and be contoured to set up a swirling, self-cleaning water action...
...hardened cops, the sight was stomach wrenching. Virtually no part of the girl's corpse was unmarked. Her fingernails had been broken upward; there were massive bruises on her temples; much of the skin on her face, chest, arms and legs had peeled from scalding water. Her lower lip had been bitten in two, presumably during her agony. The immediate cause of death was a blow on the skull. In all, Sylvia's body bore an estimated 150 burns, cuts, bruises and other lesions. Said one veteran of more than 35 years on the force...
...winter, the handicappers all figured it for strictly a three-horse race: Buckpasser, 1965's champion two-year-old, Moccasin, 1965's champion two-year-old filly, and Graustark, the much-touted, undefeated wonder horse. But there is many a slip 'twixt the Cup and such lip. Two months ago, Buckpasser cracked his right front hoof and had to be scratched. As sometimes happens with fillies, Moccasin failed to improve; she will not run. That left all the roses to Graustark-or so it seemed until last week's $29,500 Blue Grass Stakes...
...could be stopped in its tracks by divine intervention, as Joshua claimed. And while many of the pioneers of modern science ?Newton and Descartes, for example ?were devout men, they assiduously explained much of nature that previously seemed godly mysteries. Others saw no need for such reverential lip service. When he was asked by Napoleon why there was no mention of God in his new book about the stars, the French astronomer Laplace coolly answered: "I had no need of the hypothesis." Neither did Charles Darwin, in uncovering the evidence of evolution...