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...Yorkers said they liked Johnson (66%) than said they liked Bobby Kennedy (56%). That was news calculated to help the President recuperate, but the pollsters did not stop there. Pollster Lou Harris weighed in with quite a contrary finding: "Confidence in the overall job the President is doing has sunk to an alltime low of 43% approval...
...case of the Sun, youth is fortunately supported by a very generous daddy. Cowles has sunk close to $2,000,000 into the paper and is willing to shell out much more to make it a success. For a month, the Sun will distribute 100,000 free copies a day while it tries to sign up as many subscribers as possible. At month's end, it will start distributing 100,000 copies to another group of potential purchasers. Then it will follow up with a big promotion campaign, including salesmen decked out in green blazers adorned with the paper...
...building was all wood, with the nails sunk and sealed in. Anything that might contain lead or cadmium was excluded; the principal exception to the no-metal rule was stainless steel for the cages that contained experimental rats and mice. Water pipes, where possible, were made of plastic. The pure mountain air was electrostatically filtered. Visitors were barred because they might carry metalliferous dust; even research-staff members had to take their shoes off before entering the animal rooms. The animals were fed a diet with a meticulously defined metallic content, and their pure drinking water was superpurified. Whether...
...these would-be epics emerges every five years or so, and the newest is Hawaii. In fifteen years Hawaii will have sunk into almost total obscurity, remembered only by the next generation of Late Show addicts and ex-Julie Andrews fans. For the present, the best advice I can give you is to pretend it's not there, and certainly to forget that its stars worked with some distinction for Hitch-cock, Bergman, and Antonioni...
...Robert McNamaras, the Henry Fords, the John Drexels, the Alfred Vanderbilts, the William Fulbrights, the Kennedy brothers, and rafts of diplomats and fashion plates, the audience of 3,800 first-nighters provided a show-stopping spectacle of animated finery. The total weight in diamonds and emeralds alone could have sunk Cleopatra's barge, and the gold lame could have papered the Met walls. On the whole, the fashion was strictly haute, although here and there a kooky costume or two dazed the 3,000 or so beholders who checked over the operagoers as they arrived. The wife...