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...election, thus treating the city to the spectacle of an incumbent Mayor running on a platform of "throw the rascals out." This listless coalition of reformism, and the more palatable elements of the machine hasn't really worked; the reformers have gotten less than the half a loaf they hoped...
...would be a shame to ask the Negro once again to accept a half-loaf measure. The Kennedy bill, however, provides more than half a loaf. It would furnish the means for desegregating public accommodations, for speeding up school integration, for ensuring the right to vote, and for facilitating the voluntary desegregation of housing and employment. It is the most sweeping civil rights measure ever presented to Congress by an American President. It ought to be passed and passed soon; afterwards the gaps it leaves can be filled...
...years ago microwave ovens seemed just the thing for everyone's dream kitchen: roast beef cooked in 30 minutes, apple pie in 18, meat loaf in 13. But the ovens flopped: they were priced too high (well over $1,000), cost too much to repair, sometimes turned meat a bilious grey. Despite this, expensive microwave ovens are now back in force-this time not intended for everybody's kitchen. Vastly improved small models are cooking up a storm in the nation's restaurants...
...work. The car would be too expensive. He said we should come back when we were ready to produce 120,000 a year." To illustrate the lessons of productivity, Khrushchev even rambled off into Biblical history, inaccurately recalling that Christ had fed 40,000 persons with a single loaf of bread. "But no one knows if all got enough to eat," he added. "If they had, they would not have left Palestine...
...clucked at Candy Spots. Into the stretch the horses thundered-Never Bend in front, Candy Spots second, Chateaugay now third and closing fast on the outside. In an instant, Candy Spots had the lead, Chateaugay was second, and Shoemaker went to his whip. "My horse is inclined to loaf when he gets in front," he explained. He whacked Candy Spots on the right, shifted the whip to his left hand and whacked the big red colt some more. Gobbling up ground with his mammoth stride (estimated at 28 ft.), Candy Spots drew out, flashed across the finish line...