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...other two events are the "Makhma " (toothless rogue goes mad), in which the elephant must navigate through an obstacle course without losing his driver or his temper, and the " Dor" (flag race...
...Radnor, Pa., is custom-designed for televiewers. Apart from the listings, it rarely contains more than 10,000 words of text, a reading dose readily digestible during an evening's commercials. There are a few short articles on the never-never world of TV, a page of generally toothless criticism, a crossword puzzle beamed at the intelligence quotient of the shoot-'em-up crowd. (Sample crossword puzzler: "Car 54, Where____ You?") Of late, the magazine has erupted in a rash of impressive bylines - Eleanor Roosevelt, Political Scientist Leo Rosten, U.S. President-to-be John F. Kennedy, who exhorted...
...protagonist, a priggish young zoo administrator, is not of much interest, the quarrelsome old curators are a fine pride of toothless lions. The dialogue sounds just like human speech, and the novel has violence, sodomy and even a little humor. The book leads nowhere on its own, and as satire it lacks a discoverable satiree. One British critic suggested somewhat desperately that Wilson is discussing the European Common Market, but significantly he did not say whether he thinks the author thinks that the Common Market is good or bad. In the end, the only message that comes through is Wilson...
...acreage-restriction program. The House gave him the authority, but the Senate denied it, and Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, extracted a promise from his Senate Democratic colleague, Agriculture Committee Chairman Allen Ellender, that he would not give Freeman the power to drop prices. To help this toothless program through Congress, Secretary Freeman sweetened the pot to the tune of some $2 billion this year by raising support prices for dairy farmers, with a few special increases for rice and peanuts...
This year's Tiger is a toothless version of the beast that terrorized the bottom of the Ivy League last season, but it wears a foolish grin as a result of its 5-3 record and third place ranking. Despite the loss of the league-leading line of last season--John McBride, John Pell and Pete Cook--Princeton already has posted its best Ivy record since...