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...Soundest Proof. Between Edna and Georgia, Skelton filled in with alcohol, but now drinks very little and does not smoke, although he almost always has a cigar with him and manages to chew up some 25 to 30 stogies a day. Nor does he gamble-in public-since that might disillusion his followers. When he is in Las Vegas, the hotel management installs a slot machine in his room, last month turned back to him $350 he had lost while playing his enormously successful engagement at The Sands...
...obvious fact that the U.S. still easily dominated men's track (runner-up Russia had five gold medals) and had, in fact, sprung major surprises of its own on the world by grabbing nine gold medals in swimming, three in wrestling and three in boxing. By far the soundest judgment on the U.S. performances at the 1960 Olympic Games came from Manhattan College's canny George Eastment, a coach of the men's track team: "We're not a race of supermen, and it's about time we realized that the rest of the world...
...government has not fully assumed its responsibilities toward underdeveloped countries, Robert H. Thayer, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, said in Monday night's open session. Congress should de-emphasize immediately tangible goals, he urged; rather it should "persuade citizens of recently-formed independent countries to take the soundest route to financial and cultural security, not necessarily the shortest route...
...mountain town of Ascoli Piceno. Dour and taciturn, Fernando Tambroni, 58, is a staunch conservative who has been in and out of Christian Democratic governments for seven years, most recently as the Finance Minister whose hardfisted fiscal policies have helped make the lira one of the world's soundest currencies. On his first try over three weeks ago, Tambroni offered a rightist Cabinet dependent on neo-Fascist votes in the Assembly, but many of his fellow Christian Democrats found such a naked lash-up with the Fascists obnoxious...
HAVE JUST READ YOUR EXCELLENT ARTICLE "CONTACTS IN THE EYE" [Feb. 8]. YOU PRESENTED THE SOUNDEST TREATMENT OF CONTACT LENSES I HAVE SEEN. COUNTLESS PERSONS SHOULD NOW BE AWARE OF GET-RICH-QUICK OPERATORS...