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...GOPoliticians wish he had delivered the previous week in Chicago, where he went through a nationally televised twelve minutes without once directly calling for a Republican Congress this fall. "We all know that the political prophets have already [figured] the odds the Republicans are up against. But these calculations overlook the decisive element. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog . . . Some people say a political party needs a working majority. It's even more important right now to have a majority working...
...Somerset Maugham, 84, last week. Maugham observed his birthday by making his perennial remarks about quitting his literary endeavors once and for all. Peering into the future, he also decided that his slight physique may entitle him to many more years: "If you are small, death may quite likely overlook...
...same time we could make no greater mistake than to brush off this event as a scientific stunt of more significance to the man in the moon than to men on earth. We have had a grim and timely reminder of a truth we must never overlook−that the Soviet Union has developed a scientific and industrial capacity of great magnitude...
...seniors last year at 56 small colleges, Marlboro came out with the highest overall record, putting it on a par with or higher than the national average of all colleges, whether accredited or not. Armed with these results, Boyden says he has little trouble persuading most graduate schools to overlook Marlboro's unaccredited status...
...many physicians," says Dr. Riggins, "overlook the fact that almost as many new TB cases (about 100,000 a year) are now being reported as before the wonder-drug age. To hasten the elimination of tuberculosis, we need to vaccinate infants, children and certain young adults in areas of high incidence as well as those individuals who are unavoidably exposed [i.e., doctors and nurses...