Word: temperance
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...demonologists, Sparrow marks them thus: ^ Joachim Joesten (Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy): "Mr. Joesten's story (that there were two conspiracies, one to kill the President, the other to kill Governor John B. Connally of Texas) is extravagant and incredible, his book a compound of bad English, bad temper and bad taste...
ZERALDA'S OGRE by Tomi Ungerer (Harper & Row; $3.95). This lonely ogre has sharp teeth, a big nose, a bad temper and he sometimes eats little children for breakfast that is, until he meets Zeralda, who is such a good cook that he swiftly switches to pompano, roast chicken and other goodies. Though it may sound scary to adults, it is the kind of story that is invariably amusing to children and the youngsters will love the menacing drawings. Also recommended: Ungerer's Moon Man, a story of the man in the moon's brief visit to earth...
...their pursuit of multinational activities, Peterson added, U.S. businessmen must learn to "temper the typical American goal to be first and biggest. Our effort must be to help expand the market for the benefit of all and to be content with one slice of an ever-growing...
...Mind that CBS rescheduled the 60-minute show for this week (Tuesday, 10 p.m.). Though Eric Sevareid is the reporter of record, the program is Hoffer, the shirtsleeved philosopher from the San Francisco waterfront, whose aphorisms and world views have sold 700,000 books (The True Believer, The Temper of Our Time) and have produced disciples from the University of California's Clark Kerr to Dwight Eisenhower...
Meanwhile, the temper of another minority group in the South End and neighboring Roxbury--the Negroes--had infected the Puerto Ricans and the agencies that worked with them. Iglesias raised the cries of "Puerto Rican Power!" and "Self-government." While this might have seemed an excess of bravado for a man trying to mobilize 6,000 people, the agencies began to react...