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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houston Oil man Donald Woods, a liberal who is challenging Texas' conservative Governor John Connally. COPE's choice is in some cases apt to be dictated by old loyalties rather than performance or promise. A case in point is Michigan, where COPE almost certainly will throw its weight behind former Governor G. Mennen Williams in his contest with Detroit's dynamic (and liberal) Mayor Jerry Cavanagh for the Senate nomination. It may also try to influence primaries in Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and any other Southern state in which nonracist candidates may surface. In all, COPE...
Three varsity and two freshman light-weight crews begin their season at Columbia this morning...
...cheerleader than the captious critic. Easily the most popular sportswriter in the Northwest, he turns out homespun stories, and often winds up a column with what he calls a "pome," such as his piece of doggerel about a football recruiter: "He checks the young man's height and weight;/Can he kick and pass and run?/But here's the question the coach asks first:/'And how are your grades...
...practice-plus once in a while a little kissing. Take all that away and the reader is left with an utterly baffling story about pseudopolitical intrigues in a Latin American republic where the peasants are revolting and their leaders disgusting. In the end, the book sinks of its own weight (2 Ibs. 2 oz.) and its excesses: four-letter words that are stuck everywhere like flies on flypaper and clichés that lie in clutches on practically every page ("El presidente's face went white with anger . . . 'I have had men shot for saying less!' "). Readers...
...insect can raise the rate to 50, and keep it up for hours. It is no trick at all for a large African grasshopper to catch and kill a mouse, and giant water bugs commonly capture and devour small snakes. Almost any beetle can lift 850 times its own weight; to do as much, a man would have to lift 62 tons. And the common flea, which measures one-tenth of an inch, can jump twelve inches, or 120 times its own length; to do as much, a man would have to jump 720 feet...