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...cold air mass from the Soviet created an entirely new atmosphere in U.S. political life. Most of the issues which, until May Day, had dominated the 1960 presidential campaign-religion, farm policy, old-age medical aid-were all but frozen as dead as the greenbacks and "Blue Eagles" of yesteryear. The only issue that seemed to matter was foreign policy, and the central figure in the political campaign, like it or not, was Khrushchev. The Red boss himself joked that he could defeat a U.S. candidate simply by endorsing him. That being the case, he said, "The best candidate...
Besides watching Maverick, the boys spend the long 30-below-zero nights dreaming up tall tales to intrigue the tourists, come summer. Choice tales of yesteryear, apparently now out of circulation, related how much we relished ice worms for breakfast, how we mined gold with aureal (aurora borealis) energy, and how our engineering students built the Klon Dike...
...other hand, if Kennedy loses West Virginia, Stevenson's chances would surge. But so would those of the other hopefuls. Stevenson well knows the odds would be against him. Gone are some of his biggest assets and best supporters of yesteryear. He has no functioning organization. He has no support among labor chiefs, scant support among organization Democrats. In his home state of Illinois, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, state Democratic boss, opposes him because he carried the state ticket to defeat in 1956. And Harry Truman, for whatever it is worth, snorted in Manhattan last week that...
...columnist. He has left his wife Mary, an odd mother-hen type who needed Peter's boozed-up dependence on her as much as he needed booze. The only thing he has not lost is the enduring friendship of Jon Baker, a fellow booze-fighter of yesteryear who has become an apostle of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...smellies here to stay? Or are they just another cinema gimmick that will soon be one with the paper goggles of yesteryear? No doubt the public will get tired before very long of having its nose tweaked. But if smelliemakers can provide more realistic smells and make more intelligent use of them, the scent track might offer rather more than meets the nose. Exhibitors can sniff secondary possibilities in "the olfactory dimension." One of them has suggested that if he could give his customers the smell of steam heat, he might be able to cut down his oil bill. Another...