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...about. It is mainly the long-planned work of Tom Braden, 45, a wartime OSS-CIA man who went on to become an English professor at Dartmouth, his alma mater, and is now editor-publisher of the Blade-Tribune in Oceanside. Rafferty rooters recently flooded Sacramento in a vain effort to stop Braden's reappointment to the state board of education, apparently because Braden opposed Rafferty's election last November. Net effect: Braden has stolen a good deal of Rafferty's thunder...
...would meet two of the better three-year-olds in the country, Bonjour and Crewman. (Crewman had polished off Never Bend by nine lengths in a race last year.) No Robbery's opponents never saw anything but the colt's posterior; although jockey John rots was fighting in vain to keep the horse running straight, he won by 2 1/2 lengths, a second off the track record for 1 1/4 miles...
...Vain Apologies. During a swing through France and West Germany early this year, the dashing young poet was lionized at parties (including a masquerade ball during Munich's annual Carnival) by pleasure-loving bourgeois intellectuals. He even held a series of freewheeling press conferences. Heaping scorn on the party fossils whose hackwork wins the Stalin Prize each year, Evtushenko actually blamed Stalin's reign of terror on the dictator's "close associates"-of whom, though he did not say so, Nikita Khrushchev is the dean emeritus. The poet's most audacious gesture of independence...
...Denegotiation." Wilson's most reassuring message was that he unequivocally supports NATO as "the center of our defense policy in Europe." To the delight of the Defense Department, which has long tried in vain to persuade Britain to build up its chronically inadequate ground forces on the Continent, Wilson argued that Britain could well afford a strong army if. as he proposes, it were to eliminate its nuclear strike force-"the so-called independent, so-called British, so-called deterrent...
...Vatican request, C.U.'s canon law faculty prepared for the council a list of proposed reforms of obsolete church laws. In Rome, U.S. bishops waited expectantly but in vain to hear the C.U. ideas. Reason: Rector McDonald never sent them. His critics call-this "even more serious than the speaker...