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...crowd"), but waited instead in a warm car parked nearby so he could listen to the track announcer's description of the race over the loudspeaker. Progressing never did begin to run and finished fourth. Back at the barn, Mr. Fitz stared at the barely lathered horse, mused aloud: "He's just got too much nonsense in him today. Just looks like he had a good gallop for himself. We've got to run him to get him sharpened...
...insists Hellbrügge, father of six, is suitable preparation. Warns he: "An artificially early bedtime may cause childish frustrations and encourage masturbation habits." To prevent children from being overstimulated when they go to bed, Hellbrügge recommends playing Bach or Haydn records instead of popular tunes, reading aloud instead of watching television. Said he to aroused parents: "My recommendations stem solely from my concern about the frustrations which arise when children are sent to bed before their bodies are ready for sleep. The time gained should be carefully utilized by parents. If the time is wasted by allowing...
...last month. Student Barbara Jean Herin, 16, came home with The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, asked her mother to read aloud as she ironed. For Mrs. Herin, a devout Baptist, it was an unsettling experience. Out of her mouth came the strange words of one Ogden Nash: "Don't bother your head about sins of commission/ because however sinful, they must at least be fun or else/ you wouldn't be committing them." Barbara Jean's parents pored through the book, found at least 30 objectional poems. Most shocking were three by Walt Whitman (/ Sing...
Former Democratic Vice President John Nance Garner, who once hoped aloud that he would live to be 92 (so that he could claim as many years as a private citizen as in public life), turned 91. But that was too close to 92, so he has now raised his goal to an even century mark. To the usual wearisome questions about his longevity, "Cactus Jack" Garner gave an unlikely answer: it seemed to have something to do with his daily custom of eating grapefruit. But some citizens of his home town, Uvalde, Texas, suspect that Garner did not really give...
Himself a Catholic and a key figure in the Christian Democratic Party, Gronchi was so annoyed by the Vatican's attitude that he grumbled aloud that "among other matters subject to revision" was the Lateran Treaty of 1929, which regulates relations between church and state in Italy. In the end Italy's Cabinet approved Gronchi's mission to Moscow in January, but also unanimously agreed that any exchange of visits should be limited to "heads of state, to avoid the possibility that Khrushchev could reciprocate by coming to Italy." Russia's aging figurehead. President Kliment Voroshilov...