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Even in paperback, the Alexandria Quartet, Anthony Powell's The Music of Time series, Gide's Journals and all of C. P. Snow are apt to stir poolside suspicion. Anyone who takes his summer reading seriously must weather such risks-or else tuck his Doctor Zhivago inside Doctor No. The lowbrow in search of status will reverse the process and hide Sexus under, say, Koestler's The Act of Creation. The camouflage problem is more complicated for the compulsive careerist, who always gets "some good new books" before he leaves on vacation. But how can he bury...
...directed against Supreme Court involvement in the reaportionment issue, the Dirksen-Mansfield amendment--note the participation of bipartisan leadership in this conservative measure--had been added as a rider to the foreign aid bill and seemed sure of passage. Since the House had already passed the much more extreme Tuck amendment virtually anything passed by the Senate would have become law. Yet, the amendment was defeated, miraculously, by successful liberal use of that old shibboleth, the filibuster...
Last year Harvard decisively won over the Lions, 8-1; this year it could be even worse. Princeton easily blanked Columbia, 9-0, Wednesday, without losing a set. Columbia's only player who put up any kind of a battle was number two man Tuck Ganzenmuller, who bowed to Tiger Ham Magill...
...program to "export the revolution." Havana's General Directorate of Intelligence, which has already trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans in combat and propaganda techniques, has stepped up its activities. U.S. Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann says: "It's going to be nip and tuck with the Communists in Latin America for a while...
What with all those gourmet meals he has to tuck away in line of duty, 007 alias Sean Connery, 34, is finding avoirdupois harder to liquidate than his old pals from SMERSH. Relaxing with his real-life wife and child in Nassau, the 6-ft. 1-in. actor weighed in at 198 Ibs. Tsk! The Communists plainly don't think that Bondism is flabby. In East Germany, two party newspapers ran bombastic reviews of his "capitalistic, reactionary" adventures, concluded that the dashing Briton's addiction to "opening safes and bras" epitomizes Western decadence. They sound jealous...