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...moments careening around the grounds the next day (see cut). Díaz Ordaz was ready for him, and with a grin even broader than the President's own, wrapped Lyndon in a bear-hug Mexican abrazo, while his wife planted a kiss on Lady Bird's cheek...
...Andrew Beck of Liverpool argued that the schema said too much about banning the bomb and too little about disarmament controls. Beck said that the council should not be too quick to condemn governments that have kept the peace and freedom through the nuclear deterrent: "To turn the other cheek is a counsel of perfection addressed to individuals, not to governments that have a grave duty to defend the citizens entrusted to their authority." The schema was sent back for rewriting...
...medicine under the National Health Service to bigger welfare benefits for a sixth of the population. Then, before pie-in-the-sky turns into shillings-and-pence in taxation, Wilson may go back to the people for a less precarious mandate. Meanwhile, four Labor backbenchers filed a tongue-in-cheek motion censuring the Prime Minister for describing Smethwick's M.P. as a "leper." Wilson, they declared, had thus cast "a cruel and unmerited slight on lepers...
This ultimate limit will be reached in less than 1,000 years, says Dr. Fremlin, whose tongue is only halfway in his cheek. He sees no obstacle to man's attainment of a dreadful level of existence where even his movements will be rationed because motion generates heat. "We are free to choose," he says, "at what population density we want to call a halt, somewhere between the .000,006 people per square meter of the present and the 120 per square meter of the heat limit. If we do not choose, we shall eventually reach that limit...
...came dressed as Cleopatra-at the 20th Century-Fox Films meeting, and shareowners peppered management of the A. & P. with a talkathon that included a suggestion that it make cottage cheese easier to find in its stores. Usually armed with a little bit of stock and a lot of cheek, professional scolds seldom miss a chance to bait corporate officers, make speeches and generally turn the spotlight on themselves...