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APPRECIATE VERY MUCH YOUR STORY ON ME. HOWEVER STRONGLY OBJECT TO USING WORD TAWDRY TO DESCRIBE HUNGRY I. IT IS ONE OF THE RARE NIGHTCLUBS WHERE THE PERFORMER IS RESPECTED BY MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC ALIKE AS AN ARTIST...
...regret that the time has come when I must register my disapproval of your April 27 article on veterans' benefits, called "Tailoring the Dole." When the word "dole" is used, it is, to say the least, unkind. It places a stigma on all veterans who are receiving compensation or pension, regardless of the circumstances in a particular case...
...faith, to seek some advance, even if small, toward a just peace." The U.S. is willing to go on to the summit if the Geneva meeting gives "some promise that a summit meeting would have a reasonable prospect of advancing the cause of peace." Afterward, "official spokesmen" passed the word that the West would not go to the summit at all if the Russians made any move to alter the German situation unilaterally...
...practicing "deception" in the old (1954-55) row over the long-since-canceled Dixon-Yates private-power contract with AEC, and 4) creating "myths" about his achievements. When Anderson accused Strauss of "unqualified falsehoods," New Hampshire's Republican Senator Norris Cotton broke in: "That is a polite word, but where I come from that means a liar...
...found that Kennedy led Vice President Nixon in a straw vote by the comfortable margin of 57% to 43%. By deducting from the totals those voters who say they will oppose a Catholic under any circumstances, Gallup evened the odds: Kennedy, 50%; Nixon, 50%. But he had a final word of statistical encouragement for Kennedy: if Kennedy counts those Republican Catholics who would jump fences to vote for a fellow Catholic, he could hope for a narrow popular tally: Kennedy, 53%; Nixon...