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Proudly, Lerner points out that he avoided rhyming "Camelot" with "swam a lot" or "Lancelot" with "dance a lot" but he did bring off such a rhyme in My Fair Lady when he lined up "Budapest" and "ruder pest" (it had to be changed after Soviet tanks in 1956 made the line less amusing). At his worst, his pudding is awfully hasty...
...loving man who as chief of the Paris police won renown as "the prefect of silence" because he had managed to still the sounds of horn-blowing by Paris' ill-tempered motorists. In his new assignment, Dubois (who was born in Algeria) may find it necessary to fight ruder noises. Last week, on the eve of the Sultan's return, anti-French terrorists began denouncing the Sultan as a "collaborator" with France, and 28 died and 59 were wounded in shootings, bombings and knifings...
Because the Republicans had been waiting so long, the awakening was ruder than it otherwise might have been. The panorama of plenty turned out to be a mirage. Gradually, over the years, the relative scope of political patronage had been dwindling-a vast change in the shape of U.S. politics, which had been obscured during the Roosevelt-Truman period when the expansion of total federal jobs was so great that the patronage seekers were satisfied, even though they got a smaller share of the whole...
...swallow of gromwell (or any of a dozen other chemicals on which scientists are working) does not make a contraceptive summer. But the case for gromwell has a bit of legendary support: Shoshone Indians have long insisted that an extract from the western species (Lithospermum ruder ale) helps them to control the size of their families...
...that was a bid for a silver dollar, Reader Ruder missed. TIME has exactly 40 subscribers in Chattahoochee...