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...Duff went to Washington as U.S. Senator last year, he thought he had licked old Republican Boss Joe Grundy once & for all, and had left the state in safe hands. In the bitter Republican primary, Duff denounced Grundy and his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association as a bunch of "high-button-shoe reactionaries." Duff won, against all the power that 87-year-old Grundy could bring against him. With him ran his hand-picked successor as governor, a superior court judge named John Fine...
...schoolboys know that Raphael wrote a century of sonnets. Fewer know or care what a century in cricket is. In cricket, a century is 100 (or more) runs scored by a batsman during a single innings. Last week England's Len Button, playing for Surrey, joined the select group of 13 cricketers who have made their 100th century. * When Hutton scored his 100th run, the crowd at London's Kennington Oval rose to its feet to clap. His teammates jogged across the field to shake his hand. Cricketer Hutton, 35, acknowledged the applause by lifting his cap. That...
...spectacular array of gadgets, the car has 60 controls and gauges, 14 separate electric motors. At the touch of a button the doors open. To make getting in & out easy, the convertible top snaps back partway when the door opens, then locks in place again after the door is shut. When the top is down, rain will raise it automatically as it hits a sensitized plate on the seat...
Peyote is the fruit of the mescal cactus (Lophophora williamsii), which grows abundantly in Mexico and in parts of Texas. Dried, the fruits look like buttons of half-dollar size, brown with a pale center. For 15 years the peyote habit has spread. Alarmed as early as 1940, the Navajo Tribal Council outlawed peyote, but the ban could not be enforced. The peyote button had been adopted as a Communion host by the Native American Church, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, wary of a "religious freedom" issue, refused to interfere...
Campus anthropologists like to divide Yalemen into "White Shoes," "Brown Shoes" and "Black Shoes." The White Shoes come from the proper families and the proper prep schools; their weekend dress, almost like a uniform, is a button-down shirt, striped tie and Brooks Bros, suit. The Black Shoes are apt to be on scholarship (one-third of all Yale students are), working their way through college. The Brown Shoes are somewhere in between...