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...indecent to snatch up the Radcliffe Freshman Register and pore over the photographs. Be neither excited nor numbed, neither aroused nor repulsed, neither elevated nor depressed. The sophisticated one (male) in search of the sophisticatee (feminine ending) is the model of calculation. His campaign has two parts: discerning the prospects, and electing the winner...
...chest out of which the Philippines' potent handful of big sugar planters underwrite the politicians of their choice. Personable Brother Fernando, the team's working politician, served as Vice President in the sleazy administration of President Elpidio Quirino (1948-53), and is currently president protem-pore of the Philippine Senate...
...addicted schoolboys equipped with Electroculars could pore over their homework while one eye kept track of the good guys gunning down the bad guys. But few, if any kids will get the chance. Electrocular is meant for more serious sorts of second sight, in part because it will be so expensive: several thousand dollars for the complete outfit, including the camera...
...bred roses. South Seas smells good. Said Charles Perkins: "We breed fragrance into our roses. How can a rose be a rose unless it smells like a rose?" Burpee, which sold 50 million packages of seeds last year and mailed 3,.000,000 catalogues for winter-bound gardeners to pore over, is featuring a 50? packet of seeds guaranteed to produce a new strain of zinnias called Red Man that will look like crimson dahlias...
Snow flurries and the November wind made the days bitter with cold, but crowds still clustered around Moscow's hundreds of outdoor bulletin boards to pore over the tacked-up tearsheets from Izvestia, the Soviet government's official newspaper. Never before had Russia's citizenry been exposed to such a story: an interview with the President of the U.S., giving the American viewpoint on the cold war and detailing how the Soviet Union was endangering the peace...