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When he hove into view-a gallant, smiling, if somewhat aging figure, sitting his white, 16-year-old steed, Topper, with the assurance born of a hundred B westerns-pandemonium was certain to reign. The screams, the whistles, the volleys of exploding caps which racket up whenever he rides through the ranks of his wriggling idolaters would probably outdo anything ever heard during the games of ancient Rome...
Religion, according to old (84) Atheist William McCarthy, is a racket. When McCarthy, angel and sparkplug of a group called United Secularists of America, learned that his own state of New Jersey had a law on the books requiring public schools to read pupils five verses of the Old Testament each day, he whistled up his secularist cohorts to the attack. A suit against the state was duly filed by Mrs. Anna Klein, as mother of a student, and Donald Doremus, as a taxpayer, on the ground that the law was unconstitutional (TIME...
...million-a-year business, a top-priority task force with 1,100 planes, some 60,000 pilots, crewmen and groundmen. For 22 rugged months Curt LeMay had been holding them all to a relentless, competitive training schedule. With an impersonal assortment of charts and graphs -his "numbers racket," he called them -he kept a sharp, hazel-eyed watch on everything from bombing accuracy (up 500%) to venereal-disease rates...
Drill the Forehand. Ham Richardson has been playing serious tennis for four years. He picked up a racket one day, while his older brother was taking a lesson from a Baton Rouge pro named Jim Bateman. Bateman took one look at the twelve-year-old's swing, declared him a natural. After that, Ham gave up baseball and settled down for a few tennis lessons himself. After five lessons, Bateman packed him off to Chicago to play in a "13-and-under" tournament; Ham was runnerup...
...self-righteous airs, the movie does not practice what it preaches. The point of the action seems to be that a smart, ambitious telephone repairman (Edmond O'Brien) can cut himself in on the $8 billion if he applies his knowledge to the gambling racket. By hook, crook and electronics, Hero O'Brien works himself up to a high living standard, 36 changes of clothes and a love affair with another big shot's blue-blooded wife (Joanne...