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...much as my talk took up the question of America's hypocritical pose of piety and purity, I have no choice but to protest the editorial alchemy of transforming shit into manure. It is this kind of little scratch that leads each person into the gangrene of corruption that so permeats [sic] our newspapers and our politics. Thank you. Leonard Glaser
Playing Adonis. It is possible that Burton cares more about Cleopatra than he admits. "What if the first kiss isn't up to scratch?" he worries. "We're finished." With Taylor's assistance, Cleopatra has made him a big-money star and its success could keep him there. He has new power, not to mention fame. Before Cleopatra, Burton got $125,000 a picture; today his price is $500,000, most of which he banks. His own term for his emotional world today is "suspended animation." He has never asked for a divorce from Sybil and apparently never intends...
...smear. He sports an expensive cutaway, but the more he tries to be elegant the more he looks like a stevedore at his daughter's wedding. Through the stuffed shirt peeps the T shirt, and at his most ambassadorial moments Marlon is unmistakably a man who longs to scratch. The customers will probably feel the same. It's the natural reaction to a lousy picture...
...acres in Cleveland County, N.C., Namon Hamrick barely managed to scratch a living as a farmer. He tried cotton, grains and cattle at various times, but, he says, "I never cleared over $1,000 off of farming in one year in my whole life." Then Hamrick tried an entirely new kind of crop. He has prospered so well with it that farmers all over the nation have telephoned him to ask for advice. Hamrick's new crop is golf...
...backbone of the Strategic Air Command, can stay in the air little more than 20 hours. Even if drastically rebuilt with LFC wings, their flight time might increase at most to 33 hours. For really effective loitering, says Warner, an LFC missile platform should be designed from scratch. With economical new turboprop engines, the new plane would be able to stay in the air for three days, cruising almost anywhere on earth. One proposal is to arm these loitering ships with low-flying missiles capable of streaking to their targets under the searching beams of enemy radars. The mere existence...