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...country, and in 1960, to ensure good weather for week-long independence ceremonies, the Oba of Lagos reportedly hired witch doctors to drive away rain. Even the government counsel testified to the efficacy of juju potions, assured Justice Alexander that, properly treated, the flesh was impenetrable to a sharp whack from a machete...
Colorado's Peter Dominick, who thought it "absolute nonsense" to double funds for a program that "is so beset from the beginning to the end with problems," proposed an amendment to whack $553 million off the bill. Michigan's Pat McNamara, the bill's floor manager, argued that O.E.O. "is a new agency, in operation less than a year, designed to meet a gigantic problem−that of reducing poverty in the United States. To expect that there would not be problems in administration would be unreasonable." Dominick's amendment failed, 51 to 40. An amendment...
...Hall, whose mark is in the vicinity of .290. Their top pitcher is Renaissance Miss Steve Kadison, who last year was the fourth leading hitter in the EIBL with a .405-average. Kadison's hitting, however, has tailed off considerably this year but he still has the capacity to whack the long ball...
Nelson Rockefeller's remarriage, in Novak's opinion, was the event that threw the market mechanism most violently out of whack. It removed Rockefeller from the number one position in the race and, more important, showed just how lukewarm his support had been all along...
...introduced just three years ago. Predictably, the New Guineans lost every game. Just as predictably, the U.S. was the favorite. After all, Americans invented the sport in 1887, and today something like 3,500,000 men, along with 500,000 women, step up to the plate each year to whack the old grapefruit around...