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...Just a scant year ago, Professor William Alfred was a normal Harvard English professor, noted primarily among undergraduates for his sonorous Old English recitations, his passionate lecture gesticulations, and his exasperation with the microphone of Lowell Lec. There were some rumblings about a play in-the-works but nobody paid much attention...
...neediest who are helped least by the welfare state. The majority of the poor reap no benefits from social security, unemployment insurance, or the right to unionize. Farm subsidies mostly enrich the prosperous; the poorest farmers, with 40% of the working spreads in the U.S., account for a scant 7% of farm income...
...home. The quality of a Cannabis product depends upon its resin content; compared to hashish (the pure, dried resin) and ganja (flowering tops only of specially cultivated plants)--neither available in this part of the world--marihuana is a sort of cubscout variety of hemp. Yet even with its scant amount of resin, marihuana, when smoked or eaten, can provoke bizarre, highly variable symptoms of narcotic intoxication...
...hearings opened under Supreme Court Justice Wishart Flett Spence, 62. They would try to determine whether there had been a national security leak in the friendship of 36-year-old German Party Girl Gerda Munsinger with ministers of the former Conservative government. So far, the evidence was about as scant as the party-girl costumes Gerda had donned for cheesecake photos in Munich...
...oles sounded all the sweeter in view of Washington's assumption that U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic had tarnished Johnson's image south of the border, that he could never hope to gain the affection and instinctive trust that Latin Americans awarded President Kennedy. With scant advance notice, Johnson drew crowds only slightly smaller than those Kennedy received on a long-planned visit in 1962. "Who said we couldn't go to Latin America?" demanded Johnson. "Who said the Dominican Republic disgraced...