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...Salvador Dali's zany stunts were curiously prophetic of blast and ruin; today they seem tame compared with the actuality of bombs that can melt watches, toss armchairs into treetops and instantly disintegrate a man. Dali is showman enough to know it and he has taken a new tack-back toward Raphael...
This was evidently the right tack Craven, who boasts "a wee bit of Irish blood," forked over three dollars, and Ensign followed up with two. The stranger promised to return the money on the 21st, when he would rejoin the Flamingo in Brooklyn...
...Government could save $100 million annually without cutting a single essential service by scaling civil-service vacations down to 20 working days a year and cutting paid sick leave to twelve working days. When the Senate voted it down 57 to 14 (primarily because he had awkwardly tried to tack on his plan as an amendment to an appropriation bill), he braved the scowls of civil servants lurking on the edges of the chamber, promised to keep trying...
...repay the Treasury for these concessions, Secretary John Snyder wanted to tighten up the special allowances enjoyed by mine producers and oilmen, to start taxing religious, educational and charitable institutions for any income earned from operating their own businesses on the side, and to tack on $1,075,000,000 more in new estate, gift and corporation taxes...
...toss footballs on the campus and tack Esquire calendars to his walls, because the College counts this as part of school spirit. But he can't take a date anywhere except gymnasium dances and juke-box joints until the middle of his sophomore year, when he gets into one of the seventeen eating and social clubs. Unless he's in the unlucky ten percent...