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...Francisco--Juan Marichal reportedly has his temper, right arm, and left leg under control this spring. If he chips in his usual 24 wins and Mike McCormick puts together another 22 game season then Willie Mays's comeback will put the Giants in the fight...
...reporters broke into applause. Unaccustomed to such public displays, Alexander Dubček, 46, merely tipped his grey fedora, smiled hesitantly and strode briskly inside. More than any other man in Czechoslovakia, Dubček has planned, pleaded for and nurtured the sweeping changes that promise to alter the temper and quality of Czechoslovak life, and perhaps the nature of Communism in the rest of Eastern Europe as well...
With our network of tuned-in correspondents across the country and a staff of politics watchers in New York, we aim to get a continuing close reading on the political temper of the country. This year, in addition, we are commissioning Roper Research Associates to do some polling for us. All in all, we're looking forward to a fascinating and significant political year...
...Figure Judgments. While Parke, Davis has aggressively promoted its product, it has had to yield to demands from the Food and Drug Administration to temper its advertising with warnings. In a current ad with one page of type, less than a quarter is devoted to recommending the drug, more than three-quarters to warnings about how not to use it. With every package goes a leaflet carrying the same warnings. They are reprinted in the manual that doctors keep on their desks. Last week Parke, Davis spokesmen added that their representatives urge doctors to report any adverse reactions in patients...
...Quota. Wolfe was a myth-sized American natural (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 Ibs.), born in the mountains of North Carolina. His eating, his boozing, his lovemaking, his flashes of temper and his formidable output of words, spoken or written, were indulgences on a massive scale. His self-pity and his ruthless use of others, both in fiction and in reality (his own family, mistresses, editors), made it plain to friends and perceptive readers that Tom Wolfe asked more of life than he had the talent to pay for. So harshly did he caricature his native Asheville that...