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Though previously little known outside his southern Oregon district, Duncan, a former seaman who still wads his cheeks with snuff and misses no chance to brag about his Scottish ancestry, received nationwide publicity in his primary battle against antiwar Candidate Howard Morgan (TIME, June 3), whom he trounced by an almost 2-to-l margin. Since then, shuttling weekly between House and home, Duncan has become, in his words, "practically a permament resident of United Air Lines...
...times change. In 1961, shortly after the Sharpeville massacre had set South Africa reeling, Verwoerd decided that authoritarianism was just what the nation needed, named Vorster as Justice Minister, and ordered him to snuff out racial violence. Setting to work with a vengeance, Vorster sent his cops swooping in to arrest African political leaders, beefed up his police force with more men and riot equipment, spent millions of dollars extending the police network of informers...
Enter Dr. Johnson. It is the talent of a great interviewer, but it functioned only feebly in Boswell's interviews with his father, who threatened continually to disinherit his feckless son. "Better to snuff out a candle," he snarled, "than leave it to stink in a socket." In London later that year, the talent was further tried by a man who hated Scots and sycophants and saw both in Boswell. "Mr. Johnson," Boswell gasped as he sat gaping at the Grand Cham of English letters, "I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." Fixing Boswell with...
...dazzling world of the gods with the mushroom Amanita muscaria, and discovered that the visions of one eater could be passed to as many as five others if each one drank the urine of the man before him. In South America, long before Columbus, witch doctors took cohoba snuff to converse with gods and the dead...
Burns on the Carpet. With an eye for the smallest detail, Johnson also found time to snuff out a smoldering-though minor-crisis that involved the reporters. Having recently discovered two cigarette burns on the carpet of his oval office, the President, who stopped smoking after his 1955 heart attack, told Secret Service men to order reporters entering the office to ditch their lighted cigarettes. He also took to thrusting ashtrays at visitors, and recently, while walking with a guest outside his office, swooped down to pick up a crushed butt and dump it in an ashtray...