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...less inclined to run around trying to please people, more inclined to disagree, even sharply. A Humphrey autobiography to be published in April is uncharacteristically harsh on associates like Lyndon Johnson, Senator Abraham Ribicoff and Political Operator Jesse Unruh. He continues to defend big government, even though his aides warn him that such a position leaves him far out of step with the mood of the country. Last week at a Minneapolis luncheon for retired federal employees, the Senator pounded away at his theme. "Any politician who tells you we need less government is lying," he told them. "More efficient...
Hardly the sort of licentious fare that would inflame Zulu houseboys to run up stairs and rape madame, as former Minister of Posts and Telegraph Albert Hertzog used to warn. Most of the country's 18 million blacks, in fact, were unable to see the programs because they live in urban slums and rural townships without electricity. One African, who won a television set in a contest last year, was given a portable generator to operate it. After weeks of watching the test transmissions, he decided to sell the TV and keep the generator. Many whites, on the other...
After the RSVP on a dinner invitation, GASPers warn putative guests: NSP -meaning, in Jacobeanese, "no stinking puffumigation." Even cab drivers lecture passengers. Says a sign in a Manhattan taxi: YOUR RIGHT TO SMOKE ENDS WHERE MY NOSE BEGINS...
...mako by putting 16-in. stuffed sharks on diners' tables, along with a card announcing JAWS: FOR A JAWFUL REVENGE. A fashionable Indian restaurant in Manhattan, Nirvana on Rooftop, draws attention to its shark curry by keeping three small sharks in a tank. It does not have to warn customers against squeezing the charmers...
Even for the best-endowed Third and Fourth World states, development will be a long, slow process. "We warn those who today demand a fast redistribution of wealth not to be impatient," declared West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in a recent New York speech. "In Europe, the process of industrialization has so far lasted about 200 years." Modern methods of agriculture, in fact, advanced through Europe in the 19th century at the snail's pace of only a few miles yearly...