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...forever picking a spot in a high wind for a game of cards (the solution: a magnetized playing board and card deck for $10). He is equally inept at the barbecue, getting mixed up about the orders for broiled steaks-for which he needs a $4 branding iron to remind him which should be rare, medium and well done. Making the martinis is also a struggle: to solve the how-much-vermouth problem there are Martini Stones ($3), to be soaked in vermouth, then dropped into each glass so that...
...nations would race across the Atlantic-and help publicize the Fair. To prove his case, the Senator produced a statement from the President. "I am looking forward eagerly to Operation Sail," it said. "The sight of so many ships gathered from the distant corners of the world should remind us that strong, disciplined and venturesome men still can find their way safely across uncertain and stormy seas." Jack would like to catch that sight, said Teddy, from the decks of Old Ironsides, anchored near the Statue of Liberty...
...only demand that my students work regularly and well," he says. "I don't interfere with the form they wish to pursue, but I remind them that if they wish to build a tall house, for example, they must not forget to put in the staircase." The hundreds of students who have passed through his courses in composition invariably find themselves enriched by the experience. "Whenever I got bogged down," says one, "he'd just say, 'Let it sing...
...while the rest of the country progresses." Ordered to investigate, Newburn told the regents that Borden failed to "exercise appropriate restraint," but had a right to speak. The Governor advised Borden to leave Montana because "he scoffs at free enterprise and belittles the state that pays him. I might remind him that it is not the right-wingers who are being placed behind bars for subversive activities...
...devoting this issue to a discussion of "Drugs and the Mind," the editors of the Harvard Review remind us that Cambridge is the Drug Capital of the East Coast--at least for your better class of compounds. The better class, of course, is composed of the hallucinogens or psychedelics, those recently popularized substances which are less harmful than such narcotics of ill repute as opium and heroin, more fashionable than such gauche inebriants as airplane glue and laughing gas, and, in their effect, the closest things yet to fulfilling Aldous Huxley's prophecy of a drug having "all the advantages...