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Life is the fruit they long to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly they understand...
...snatched up cat food whether or not they had cats (the store finally had to assign a clerk to explain that the food was for cats; said one Italian shopper: "Then I'll get a cat"), bought up huge quantities of Kraft's "Italian" salad dressing and ripe olives canned...
...ripe age of 77, Marc Chagall last week became a doctor - of fine arts. At his honorary hooding at the University of Notre Dame, the Russian-born artist who has painted cows jumping over the moon and orbited lovers, flowers and folklore, Chagall had a few words for U.S. academics...
Aimed at the Barricades. As Selma's angry impatience exploded, Lyndon Johnson realized that the time was ripe to go after the widest possible support for his bill. Key figures in the bipartisan drafting were Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Katzenbach. Each man set his own legal staff to work, writing drafts of the new bill, refining, plugging loopholes, setting new standards, comparing notes. At each stage Lyndon Johnson studied the proposals and made suggestions. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution already outlaws poll taxes in federal elections, and now Johnson wanted...
...Single Girl has outsold all its sister sex books because it talks hip. "It's not a study on how to get married," says Helen Brown, who married at a ripe 37, "but how to stay single in superlative style. How much safer to marry with the play out of his system and yours. It takes guts." Such words are calculated to allay the anxieties of the 14 million single women in the U.S., most of whom are perpetually nagged to get married...