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...Time Around" sounds like the Beatles's "Norwegian Wood." Like its model, it pushes a sitar or something into prominence, then narrates a man's seduction by some sore of Lamia, from his passive and clouded viewpoint. Once again triple rimes breed doggeral--this time in short, 3-to-a-line phrases like...
...Valkyrie is sometimes known as Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent "because of technical problems and its droopy, attenuated profile" [May 13]. Now wait just a darn minute! What the heck! Makes a sea serpent sore! When they run into technical problems on my network TV show, I'm known as the XB-70 Valkyrie...
More worrisome is the continued illness of Walt Howlett, defender in the two-mile who has been bothered by a sore calf all year...
Predictably, the festering sore of U.S. policy in Vietnam is reopened this time by Review's editor, F. A. Richman. He attacks Dean Rusk's myopic vision" and alleges that President Johnson's decision to transfer the responsibility for multi-agency foreign operations from the White House basement to the State Department Secretariat represents an "abdication of presidential perspective." It's too bad he neglects to mention that today the rigid White House perspective on foreign affairs, especially toward Vietnam, seems identical with that of the State Department. Coordination of the White House with the State Department has improved markedly...
Matter of Age. The chances were that neither Keane nor Houk could revive these Yankees. Old age had destroyed their skills. Slugger Mickey Mantle, at 34 and in his 16th season, was playing with his shaky legs encased in tape; his right shoulder was still sore after an operation for a bone chip, and he had yet to hit his first home run. Roger Maris, 31, the second half of the M. & M. twins who tore the league apart a few years ago, sat out 116 games last year because of injuries. He seems healthy enough now, but his batting...