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"Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." Euripides THE TURTLE AND THE HAREBRAINED The distinguished senator from Massachasetts notes another clique of Robber Barons flagrante...
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...The New York Review of Books THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG Signs that the cultural renaissance has seeped into the Dallas Cowboy' locker room as revealed in a rare and very special interview with Mr...
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...Compare this artful poem, written by Papa Mao, with any of the paltry poesy ever penned by old Adolph: The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march...
...Such evaluations lead to "'injustices which students, teachers and principals can no longer countenance," said Sister Mary Simpson, principal of St...
...Every parent should keep that song in mind when punishing a child...
...The New Repub/ic CORVAIRS AND SNAKE OIL Ralph Nader's years of studying the scheming ways of big Ims~mess have not been wasted...
...literary circles: Vallery Ivanovich Markelov a United Nations secretariat editor arrested Monday night on espionage charges, had extensive technical engineering training, records indicated yesterday...
...Euripides THE TURTLE AND THE HAREBRAINED The distinguished senator from Massachasetts notes another clique of Robber Barons flagrante delecto: Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass...
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...Monday night's arrest took place in a parking lot after a reported meeting in the Wah Imm Chinese restaurant in Patchogue, L.I...
...Teresa Academy in East St...
...Grades and class rankings are "'inhuman" ways of rating students and do more harm than good, two Midwestern educators told the North Central Accrediting Association meeting here yesterday...
...Box 19404, Washington, DC.| I I am a Public Cit~n...
...Promising a return to what he called "the highest perfection," he said he would again some day stir the same feelings in football crowds that Beethoven "Eroica" - - or Heroic - - Symphony evokes from music lovers...
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...What is your opinion, doctor...
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...Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing...
...Just let me tell you about the structure of your little boy's body...
...What I want is to see something done | about it...
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...Associated Press BELLES LETrRES The multifarious capacities of the New China man continue to dazzle the decadent West...
...UPI NEWS ~ R S AGAIN Tsk Tsk, Agnew's assault on the media finds an unexpected ally: Near-Neanderthal publisher, William Loeb, had instulted Mr...
...Remember the song that goes, "knee hone connected to the thigh bone, thigh bone connected to the hip hone, hip bone connected to the back bone," etc...
...On to General Motors...
...Nowadays they teach things that haven't happened," said Severino Salvino da Silva, 45...
...New York Times THE RED SCARE It's dog eat dog in the exotic rough and tumble of U.N...
...Here's my i I $15.00 (I enclose an additional con- i | tril~tion of...
...GNOSTIC STUDIES Sister Annie Gottlieb peers into the future presumably after a tour of the Bronx zoo: We are moving "'beyond all known standards...
...I don't believe in beating a child but our little boy responds very nicely to a little swat on his behind...
...Yesterday the 32-year-old stockily buiit Russian was held in $5,000,000 bail by United States Magistrate Max Sehlffman in Brooklyn...
...He said the space trip saga was "'an invention of newspapers and professors who do not believe in God...
...warns that 95 per cent of all pet turtles shipped in the United States are contaminated with salmonella bacteria, although the turtle farmers claim a much lower number - - 25 per cent...
...The Five Sierras meander like small waves, The summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay...
...Please don't waste any of it sending me a | | thank you letter, a membership card | I or literature...
...I _ _ _ _ | WONDERS OF SCIENCE From the newspaper advertisement of a renowned Midwesteru chh-opractor, one can easily perceive that this arcane science might soon render Dr...
...Recently a cunning advertisement actually signed by him appeared in the New York Times with this enterprising attachment...
...Duane Thomas, running back: "Art held me back - - it being impossible to leave the world of football until I had brought forth all I had felt called upon to produce...
...The far snows of minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh...
...Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand...
...Chicago Tribune BEYOND BUSING What will the pointy heads be telling the little children next...
...Probably every secondary school principal here today has known an underachiever in the 9th and 10th grades who suddenly wakes up and wants desperately to attend engineering school, but his class rank places him below half in his class," she said...
...Cincinnati Enquirer A NATION OF SOMNAMBULATING EINSTEINS When the New Enlightenment filters down to a woman of the cloth merriment ensues...
...Speck obsolete as well as leeches and horse hairs: Q. I read in a popular child care book that spanking a small child could be injurious to his spine, and that it might create serious problems in the future...
...A srnaH shopowner in the municipality of Caruaru in Northeast Brazil told authorities he had withdrawn his 8-yearold son from school because he had been told by his teacher that man had landed on the moon...
...A. Please don't get me into the middle of the age-old controversey about sparing the rod or vice versa...
...I know what's wrong...
...to a species ~vith a new name, that would not dare define itself as a man...
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...Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River...
Vol. 5 • June 1972 • No. 9
