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...concentration camp. There are two Aloises, one wishing only to breed rabbits and sing in the town choir, thus frustrating and embittering his wife who longs for children, and the other an overly indoctrinated and obtuse handyman who embarrasses and deflates his neighbors as they delicately change tack...
...arms race and other domestic and diplomatic issues; the campaign was to be distinguished by the intellectual cogency of Hughes's arguments, rather than by the glamour and vacuity which characterize American campaigns--not least of all Teddy's. Hughes had taken their advice and did not change his tack during the Cuban crisis; as he pointed out in an article in Commentary several months after the elections to do anything but criticize the haste and melodrama of President Kennedy's response to the missile buildup would have been to abandon the very premises of his campaign...
...peen brute with magnetal animism. There have been three Mickey Spillane movies. In I, the Jury, an actor called Biff Elliot tried his best. Then Ralph Meeker got his chance in Kiss Me Deadly. Then came a fellow named Robert Bray in My Gun Is Quick. But they were tack Hammers all. There was only one man to do it, Spillane concluded, and he has finally stepped into the role. The new Mike Hammer of the screen - in The Girl Hunters, ready for release this month - is Author Spillane himself...
...year alone. Panama's Manuel Ycaza had the second highest percentage of winners (24%) in the nation last year and ranked third in purses (with $1,975,118). Of all the Latin Americans, Baeza is the best. The son and grandson of jockeys, he grew up around the tack room of Panama City's Juan Franco race track, where President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was assassinated in 1955. He learned to ride at six, won his first race at 15. Purses in Panama were small and the horses were cheap. "Most of them looked like...
Herbert Brucker, articulate editor of the Hartford Courant and newly elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, took a more practical tack. Hoping to put the issue in perspective, and also to put it on the shelf, he suggested that he and his colleagues "put ourselves in the other fellow's shoes...