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...stubbed out a cigarette, put on his coat and thought to himself: Here we go-here's reform. He made the 100 crowded strides to the podium looking like what he has always been: a pol. Not young, not old, but plenty Irish and plenty seasoned. Odd that he represented in the minds of many of the new people the very bossism they hated; yet he had held the party together for a decade and sometimes, with men like Treasurer Robert Strauss, almost with his bare hands and certainly with bare wallets. Without O'Brien there would have...
...sessions in major cities, giving advice that ranges from the fundamental ("Money is the mothers' milk of politics") to the peripheral ("Get long socks. Nobody likes to see a patch of bare leg over a droopy sock"). Unusual as it seems, the idea is working. Said one Detroit pol: "I've learned more here than I've learned in twelve years in politics...
Still, in the latest offensive, North Vietnamese tanks and trucks relied heavily on the POL (petroleum, oil and lubricants) that U.S. planes have been concentrating oir in their attacks. The final returns will not be in until the dry season returns to South Viet Nam in the fall and the North Vietnamese either launch a second round to their offensive or are visibly unable to do so. Hanoi's Central Committee and Politburo are known to have recently debated how they should react to the raids, though whatever decision they reached, if any, has not been revealed. Russia...
...State of the Union, the 1945-46 Pulitzer prizewinning play by Russel Grouse and Howard Lindsay, a woman newspaper publisher asks an old Republican political boss: "Is there any real difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party?" Cracks the pol: "All the difference in the world. They...
With its size and burgeoning economy, the Nigerian giant may yet succeed in strengthening and stabilizing all of Black Africa. Its progress will be seriously impeded, however, by its failure to achieve what Poet Pol Ndu described as the pooling of brothers with brother...