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...Quinn discussed it with an old St. Louis friend, Bill James. Remarking on the possibilities in growing Hawaii, James said prophetically: "If you go, you'll be Governor in ten years." The Quinns, by then parents of two children, talked it over. Says Bill: "That Boston weather was wet that winter, and the kids' snow suits wouldn't get dry, and Nancy wasn't feeling very well-so she said, 'Lord...
...absurd thing to be pelted with matzoth balls, and for some years now, the South's more sensitive segregationists have been feeling absurd. The barrage of wet kosher dumplings comes from an overweight (198½ Ibs.) leprecohen named Harry Golden, who lives in Charlotte, N.C. and publishes an eccentric (no news, all editorials) newspaper called The Carolina Israelite (TIME, April 1, 1957). When he is not waging his blintzkrieg against the racists, Golden may be tweaking some fellow Jews by the short hair of their mink stoles, sentimentalizing about his boyhood in Manhattan's Lower East Side...
...rugged science. While the little ship rolls and pitches, the scientists work round the clock, snatching bits of food and sleep during quiet intervals in their experiments. Dress is informal. In the Tropics, oceanographers favor ragged shorts or underdrawers; on North Atlantic cruises the men are generally cold and wet, and during the first week at sea most of them get seasick. "The best seagoing oceanographers," says Iselin, "are the result of picking over a lot of stomachs...
Officials argue that their system cleans the cities of vagrants, helps the harvest and saves the government money. Last week in Pretoria Supreme Court, Justice Quartus De Wet, after hearing arguments that the system has no basis in law, remarked sternly, "The court cannot countenance this procedure." Crusading Lawyer Carlson allowed himself a smile and a side remark: "At last we seem to be getting somewhere...
...policy is on almost any issue. No one can tell me." While Republican Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully yielded five minutes of his own allotted floor time so that the Democratic squabble could continue, Johnson scoffed at his critics. Asked he: "Do they expect a fairy godmother or a wet nurse to get a majority to deliver into their hands...