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...speeches have been clocked at a breathless 250 words a minute, and he will rapidly discourse until dawn on any subject, to any audience, on any occasion. Even last week, when Johnson finally told Humphrey that he would be the vice-presidential nominee, the President still felt compelled to warn Humphrey against talking too much...
Attractive Nuisance. Historically, the law has always relaxed the landowner's duty of reasonable care when an invited guest is injured. The exception is a hidden danger of which the owner is aware but the guest is not. If a pool owner fails to warn guests that his diving board is broken, for example, he is quite likely to lose a diving-accident case if it comes to court...
Washington's medicine may best be described as a big dose of more of the same. It "does not imply," U.S. Ambassador to Saigon General Maxwell Taylor was quick to warn, "any change in U.S. strategy or in the command structure"-meaning that the U.S. was still not taking over direct command in the war or changing the rules. Like those who preceded them, the bulk of the new men will fan out into the most harassed provinces, not to command but to teach, cajole, curse, exhort, and occasionally inspire Vietnamese soldiers half their size, in what must...
...goods faulty; Radio Prague recently admitted that half the output of 650 kinds of industrial products are "below world levels" of quality, and that rejects cost $200 million a year. Prague, once called "the Golden City," is a mangy metropolis of sooty streets and faulty plumbing. Everywhere signs warn "Pozor pada omitka" (Beware of falling plaster). Railroads cannot haul all the coal needed for power. "What did we use before candles?" runs a favorite joke. The answer: "Electricity...
...next to a safe full of top secrets, dreaming about love, Monte Carlo and a yellow two-seater sportscar. Their romance, though, consists mainly of weekends in London, and the extent of their moral debauchery is going to a music hall to applaud the Crazy Gang. The film makers warn at the end that "there may be a spy in this very theater, in the very row where you're sitting." Such drab middle-class doings as this film shows may well prod enemy agents into a more exciting line of work...