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...generations afterward, Will Rogers twitted in the Twain vein, taking America and Americans to task: "Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with." Soon afterward Fred Allen followed with his own caustic acid. "He was not brought by the stork," Allen once said about a heritage-happy snob. "He was brought by a man from the Audubon Society personally." During the Depression, Allen recommended setting up "a crumb line for midgets." His friendly enemy, Jack Benny, was not far from Twain's platform personality in a radio skit in which...
...prospects are uniformly unfavorable for China. "We are," he said, "a far better, greater military power. We have been preparing for this kind of guerrilla-war challenge ever since 1961. We have a vast stock pile of nuclear weapons, the ultimate deterrent of any great expansion." In similar vein, when Fulbright expressed apprehension that "the Chinese may feel very nervous about a war," Taylor retorted: "They should. If they ever got in a war with us, it would be disastrous for them...
...Walton Lillelehi's team from the University of Minnesota described a similar technique, using part of the network of veins from the patient's own thigh. The trunk vein is sewn into the aorta, and the branches are set in tunnels in the heart-wall muscle-tunnels through which a surgical knife has been run, deliberately cutting several small, transverse arteries, to open them up so that they can receive the new blood supply. Ten of these patients, said Dr. Randolph M. Ferlic, who suffered from crippling angina even when they were sitting down and not exerting themselves...
...Essential. In the same pioneering vein, Traynor suggested in 1961 that a suspect is entitled to a lawyer as soon as the police are prepared to charge him. In 1964 the Supreme Court followed that path in Escobedo v. Illinois, the case that police now fear will eliminate all confessions. Indeed, California's Justice Mathew Tobriner amplified Escobedo last January by holding for the court in People v. Dorado that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and to silence voids his confession, even though he may not have asked for a lawyer. Last spring...
...hauled away with two East German girls in the car (the Reds sentenced him to twelve years at hard labor). The driver, Horst's brother Heinz, 27, sprinted for the boundary 15 feet away. Just as he got there, a machine-gun slug caught him in the jugular vein. He bled to death three feet inside West Berlin-the 65th person known to have been slain at the Wall...