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...weapons that make Nikita Khrushchev such a formidable enemy is his extraordinary ability to mix threats of nuclear destruction with homespun homilies straight from the cracker barrel, all delivered with the jaunty air of a man who feels he has got the world on a string and enjoys yo-yoing it around. Last week, in a 4½-hour interview in his Kremlin office with New York Timesman Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Khrushchev was on top of the barrel...
...Metrecal Wafers, the first solid-food addition to Mead Johnson & Co.'s liquid and powdered line. With the familiar Metrecal taste scarcely disguised by cinnamon and molasses flavoring, each cracker contains 25 calories, and a package of 36 provides a day's diet of 900 calories. Price: $1.19 per package...
...gerrymandered into new voter patterns, will watch his step until Election Day. Said one California Democrat last week: "If I knew where I stood, I could vote like a statesman. Instead I've got to tiptoe down the center aisle, this way and that. I'm a cracker-barrel Congressman, and I could have been a statesman...
...Basel University's professor Karl Earth, at 74 the Grand Panjandrum of Protestant theologians, whose multivolume work-in-progress, Kirchliche Dogmatik, may well ride out the centuries as a theological landmark, whose post-World War I sermons on Paul's letters to the Romans lit a cannon cracker under Europe's bourgeoisie, whose resounding no to Hitler stiffened intellectual resistance to Naziism, and whose casual shoulder shrug to Communism in recent years has stiffened Western resistance to Barth...
...deserved a proud and artistic medal-everywhere but in the U.S. Last week when President Kennedy honored the country's first astronaut, all he had to pin on the lapel of Commander Alan Shepard was something that looked as if it might have come out of a Cracker Jack box. The Distinguished Service Medal of the National Aeronautics and Space