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...last week that he would disinter it when he delivers his State of the Union message in January. But, given the current climate of opinion in the U.S. and the likelihood that the 90th Congress will be a shade or two to the right of the 89th, there is scant probability that a similar bill will fare any better in 1967 than the original...
...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who greeted him fulsomely as the results became clear. Fully 80.8% of the nation's 5,290,000 registered voters went to the polls-many more than the scant 50% that U.S. observers had cautiously predicted. It was a beginning in the slow, arduous process of building a democracy in a nation racked...
...cries House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, but the fact is that local issues will probably overshadow all of them. Further, the President is taking extreme pains not to rock the boat with any overly controversial decisions before Election Day. In this situation, G.O.P. leaders privately concede that they stand scant chance of recovering the 38 House seats they lost in the '64 Donnybrook, figure they would be doing well to score a net gain of 30 or 35, plus one or two in the Senate...
...savage and unrestrained libido. Actually, they are scarcely interested in sex at all. In 466 hours of directly observing gorillas in the wild, Anthropologist George Schaller witnessed only two copulations and one unsuccessful try. Furthermore, gorilla swains are sadly underendowed by human standards: the erect male organ measures a scant...
...variety is often armed with a tin cup and either a guitar or colored chalks to wrest pennies for wine and smokes from sidewalk patrons. Britons, who tend to consider eccentrics national assets, regard their beatniks with tolerant amusement. Charles de Gaulle's police have been trying, with scant success, to shoo them out of newly scrubbed Paris. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is truly outraged, for the happy-go-lucky Gammler, as they are known in West Germany, are an insult to the image of neat, tidy, hard-working Germans...