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Gift Horse. Still, the then Vice President apparently had time to scratch for a piece of the limelight by coming through Mrs. Lincoln's White House office nearly every day, then on to the reception room, where newsmen could see him and assume he had just emerged from consultations with Kennedy. "Does he use this door very often? What is he doing in these offices?" she quotes J.F.K. Johnson, she says, asked her: "Be a good girl and see that I get invited to all the meetings in the White House." She observes that he wasn't, noting...
There has been without doubt a very real desire for growth in the Peace Corps, for any economist will note that 14,000 Volunteers will hardly scratch the surface of the problems between present and peace. One thousand Volunteers in India are too few for final solutions; therefore they aim at "confrontation rather than solution." Yet on a proportionate per capita basis, Botswana would merit only two Volunteers rather than the eighty British and American Volunteers it now requests and uses. Thus a concern for growth is a function of a quest for impact: if peace is at issue, impact...
...Scratch. Gary did not take the witness stand and his attorney merely objected to prosecution allegations and procedures. The two judges took just 20 minutes to convict Gary. But even some of those who thought him guilty felt that flaws in the case had not been adequately brought out. They noted that Gary's parents produced an identical knife and said it was the one he had bought. As for the screams, the police had already interviewed some witnesses by the time they questioned Gary, and it therefore could have been the police who provided Gary's version...
...were found in the car, but none of them was Gary's. A spot of blood on the steering wheel was never analyzed to discover whether it matched Gary's type or Judy's. It was pointed out in court that he did have scratches and bruises on his body that might have been inflicted in a struggle, but the county medical examiner said that he had been ordered not to determine their age. It seemed to him, however, that one scratch at least was more than a few days...
...Yogi-who bills himself as "His Holiness"-opened his New York pitch with a press conference, at which devotional attention was paid to the $3 price of admission to the Garden. What if a spiritual devotee has no scratch? "I'm quite sure," meditated the Yogi, "that in New York, $3 will not be beyond the reach...