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...Governor. The idea was to keep Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer from vacating the statehouse this year and going after Cannon's job. Cannon blocked Sawyer, but now he has Laxalt to contend with. More dynamic than Cannon, Laxalt, 41, suffers from inexperience-and from Goldwater. Cannon by an inch...
...INTERIOR DECORATION: "Only the mindless house is dull. When the mode calls for colonial they are ruffled and cobbler-benched within an inch of their lives. When the vogue stipulates wall-to-wall carpeting, everything, including stairways, smothers ankle-deep in wool. The whole" effect of such interiors is as handsome-and as lifeless-as model rooms in department stores...
...M.I.T. soccer team that wasn't supposed to be a match for Harvard came within an inch of beating the Crimson booters yesterday before settling...
...black-and-white inevitable. Holdout CBS has invested $13 million in new color facilities, and its nearly completed broadcast center in Manhattan has been designed to accommodate a full schedule of color programs. Zenith and Admiral, following the trend in black-and-white to smaller screens, are developing 19-inch color tubes, and several companies are experimenting with 16-inch sets. Most of the new tubes cast images on the screen at a 90° angle instead of the usual 70°, can thus be made shorter to fit into cabinets less bulky than present TV sets. The smaller tubes...
...fire, refined to the incandescence of a furnace, and it is like the gleam of armour in the cold winter." He is fascinated by the Turks' capacity for almost trancelike relaxation. "No one," he says, "sits quite so relaxedlly, expertly, beatifically as a Turk; he sits with every inch of his body; his very face sits." In Iran, Pritchett isolates the country's cruelty in a single, compelling anecdote about his hosts: they drive along the beaches of the Caspian Sea shooting falcon, sea gulls and teal indiscriminately, then take the wounded birds home for their children...