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...Randi Trio: Feelin' Like Blues (World Pacific). A first recording by a 24-year-old pianist who can clout the keyboard with macelike power or spin out feathery right-hand phrases with impressive speed. All the numbers-Summertime, Blues for Miti, Cheek to Cheek-not only swing but bounce, suggesting that Randi would be wise to reach occasionally for the soft pedal...
...general agreement, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson can outtalk any other ten Texans with one tongue tied behind his cheek-and last week, deep in the heart of Africa, he applied his skill on an international scale. Accompanied by his wife Lady Bird, Johnson turned up in Senegal to represent the U.S. at the first anniversary of the nation's independence. When he left a few days later, some tens of thousands of delighted Senegalese seemed ready to go all the way with L.B.J...
...first two movies, Hero Boone righteously refused to kiss the heroine. In his third, he gave her a shy peck on the cheek. In his fourth, he actually kissed her on the mouth-though, as one moviegoer saw it, the kiss was not so much a kiss as an "oral handshake." But after seeing this film, Mama Boone's hand may well reach instinctively for the Singer. Pat Boone kisses the leading lady with his mouth wide open. What's more, in full view of those millions of suggestible young people to whom he has preached "the teen...
...tentative and somewhat tongue-in-cheek hypothesis I would maintain that the Harvard Office of Admissions practices unconscious discrimination against obese applicants," Jean Mayer, associate professor of Nutrition, remarked yesterday...
...reporters learned from Kennedy the arts of brevity and precisions of speech. Many of them are now following the example of the old lady who said, 'How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?' " But Reston had an even better tongue-in-cheek idea for reducing the crush: "Ban all reporters from the New York Times, or if that is too radical, cut the Times down to ten reporters...