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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Politics & Congress: "All this talk about me starting a bunch of new programs is just a little bit silly." He was "just asking for what I have always believed." And "all this talk about Congress having to take weeks and months to get simple actions carried out and accomplished is a little bit silly," too. If the Democrats really wanted to "enact a constructive program, it could be done very quickly, because they've got a 2-to-1 majority in both houses...
Jordan's foremost exponent of speed, dashing young King Hussein, 24, will try any means of locomotion once. Last week, on an airfield near his capital of Amman, Hussein-looking a little bit like a young Thomas E. Dewey-climbed into one of the latest species of automobiles, a "go kart," a low-center-of-gravity vehicle that can hit speeds of up to 85 m.p.h. Driving the little racer, which affords drivers an illusion of Grand Prix speeds, brought a grin to Hussein, who normally makes time in road-burning sports cars or jets...
...they stayed with Latin, and it didn't hurt them a bit...
...theoretical limit of no m.p.h. And the Federation Franfaise des Sports had some words of misgiving: "Formula Junior cars were meant to be something between glorified hot-rods and disenchanted Ferraris. But now the class has grown from the race of the weekend amateur to a fulltime sport every bit as competitive as Grand Prix racing...
Half & Half. At 40, Sally Perle is an independent casting agent, a supplier of all types of extras and bit players for films made in the New York area-and the only specialist in gangs. Part casting director and part actor's agent, she is a professional hybrid. In the old Hollywood days, Central Casting did most of it. But now that more and more movies are filmed on location, there is room for the likes of Sally...