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...pennant-fever bug is even infecting the also-rans-for the simple reason that the three top teams have already played each other all the times the schedule calls for. Now the decision is in the hands of the Angels-or so thought the midweek crowd of 25,033 that turned out to watch Los Angeles play the New York Yankees last week. The same weekday night, up at Minnesota, the Twins packed them in for a game with the league-leading Orioles, and so did the White Sox when they entertained the Detroit Tigers...
There were parties everywhere. The Democratic National Committee hosted a "Salute to Women Doers," at which some 2,000 guests waited 90 minutes to hear bug-eyed Broadway Star Carol Channing belt out the official Democratic campaign song, Hello, Lyndon! Maine's delegation caucused around their motel-headquarters pool one morning, met again that night to whoop it up until the wee hours. The Texas delegation honored Governor John Connally with a Dior-and diamond-filled bash at Atlantic City's aging Haddon Hall, and the New Jersey host delegation gave cocktail parties on three successive afternoons...
...Houston last week, helicopters swooped low over bayous to lay thick mists of insecticide, and fire engines raced from block to block to spray chemicals in vacant lots. Citizens lined up to receive free handouts of bug-killing Malathion, and even kids at play carried spray guns to squirt at anything that flew...
...anyone about attempting to do anything. No subversive organization gave me any idea. No underworld person made any effort to contact me . . . The last thing I read was that Mrs. Kennedy may have to come back to Dallas for the trial, and I don't know what bug got hold of me . . . Suddenly the feeling, the emotional feeling, came within me that someone owed this debt to our beloved President to save her the ordeal of coming back." As exclusives go, however, the leaked transcript fell somewhat short of perfection. It presented few, if any, surprises: much the same...
...adjacent land. The pool owner is exempt only if he can blame a third party or an act of God. Under "nuisance law." which amply covers swimming pools, the neighbors may also sue or enjoin the poolster from all sorts of annoyances-glaring lights, noisy swimmers, noxious chlorine, and bug-breeding stagnant water...