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...peopled with grotesques, inanimate as well as animate: crumbling mansions where the plumbing has a will-but not a constitution -of iron; a Hereford bull that for reasons of its own sits down in a kitchen, blockading the stove; an alcoholic postman who carelessly stuffs mail into a tree stump, then thinks to bring the practice into line with regulations by carving the words post box in the bark...
...support came from both sexes. Though she has allied herself with various women's movements, she remains Miss, not Ms., and none of the Women's Caucus "flying squads" appeared in Flatbush to stump for her. The campaign was almost purely one of issues -and age. Says Miss Holtzman: "I was a constituent of his, and I never saw him. He never seemed to attend any of the local meetings." With two years as a state committeewoman behind her, Liz Holtzman sailed into Celler, buttonholing anyone who would listen at supermarkets and subway stops. She attacked...
...province chief, Colonel Tran Van Nhut, has managed to set up a system of rice rationing. Bags of rice are handed across a wire fence to those who can come to get them. When a wizened man with a stump of a leg hobbles up, he cannot quite negotiate his crutch and his rice. He collapses in a heap, trying to figure out some way of fastening his ration to his loincloth...
Died. Admiral Felix Stump, 77, former commander of the Pacific Fleet; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. A brusque, no-nonsense Annapolis man, Stump was skipper of a seaplane tender at the start of World War II. He was soon given a carrier command and then led the U.S. Navy carrier task force during the battle of Leyte Gulf. As chief of the Pacific Fleet (1953-58), Stump was responsible for maintaining the nation's military ties with Asian allies...
...that his staff's figures are realists and that the corporations are fulls able to pay an additional six million dollars in taxes. "I think we have a tax revelt in this country," McGovern said "I said that in The Wall Street Journal, I've said that on the stump, and I believe that...