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...ultraconservative clique known as the "syndicate," the Young Republicans have been an embarrassment to party professionals for years. The 1963 convention degenerated into a near riot when rightists told moderates to "go back to Russia." The dominant faction in New Jersey, which not inappropriately called itself the "Rat Finks," later made headlines with its penchant for songs lampooning Jews and Negroes...
...anti-inflammatory drugs, how they work and which are best. How they work on some cells at some times seems clear: the cortisone group of hormones strengthens the lysosome membrane, making it less likely to spill out its enzymes. But the field is booby-trapped with paradoxes. If a rat is given a local injection of histamine, a notorious cause of inflammation, it has a strong reaction. But if the rat first gets a histamine shot into its abdominal cavity, said Dr. Glenn, a later local injection will have little effect...
...over-emphasize the emotional and intellectual importance of taking time under the circumstances provided by the Institute to get away from the rat race and get your batteries recharged. To expose yourself voluntarily to new points of view and new problems. To let your mind run free, and find your ideas, your perceptions, change and grow in this atmosphere, liberated from the debilating day-by-day demands of an operational job. The opportunity for this kind of rejuvenation, unshackling, could be worth the year all by itself...
...mouth of the Cuyahoga River in 1796, it seemed a promised land. Since then, the Ohio city he laid out has dropped an a from its founder's name and most of his Utopian hopes. Last summer's flaming riots in the city's rat-infested ghetto of Hough proved that Cleveland's Negro neighborhoods are as volatile as Watts or Harlem. Scared citizens have taken to muttering about "Communist influence." Yet the Negro community's real problem is as close as the house next door-which in much of Cleveland...
Quinn plans a counterattack. Conning the kids, he becomes the head rodent of the rat pack. From a hideout in a swamp, he sends them out with numerous blackmail messages threatening to expose the gangland's deepest secrets, his wife's extramarital capers, his partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything...