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Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium was really only kidding. It wanted to show the public what was known about journeys into space; trips to the moon were no longer comic-book fantasies, said the planetarium, but a definite possibility-perhaps before the century is out. Tongue in cheek, the planetarium began taking reservations and faithfully promised to turn them over to the first interplanetary travel agency, when...
...Antonio, became a political has-been. Last week, by winning a Democratic primary race for the Texas legislature, his son flicked the dust off the old name. At 29, Maury Jr., an ex-Marine officer, was verbally a mere ghost of his father; he even turned the other cheek when his oil-rich opponent tried to smear him red. Growled the elder Maverick: "Little Maury gives me a pain in the neck. He's such a damned little gentleman...
...library at Manhattan's WOR (Mutual), he found on file, under generic titles such as Love, Hate, Conflict, etc., "6,000 bridges,* and believe me [they] run the gamut." Even more to his satisfaction, most of them had also been tagged by their embittered composers with tongue-in-cheek titles "more descriptive than the music...
...standards have changed, but not much. With its tongue barely bulging its cheek, Satire, a new Oxford undergraduate magazine, lists requirements for present-day "smarties...
There was a time when Bing Crosby used to explode, "My son Gary a crooner? Never!" Last week Der Bingle's explosion was muffled down to a tongue-in-cheek...