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...long as Pop continues to concern himself only with such issues as "who will win the pennant this year" or "which beer holds its head the longest," why should he resent Mom's wearing the rather heavy mantle of responsibility which rightfully should rest on his shoulders? Especially since most of us would welcome the opportunity to again slip into something more comfortable...
Castro's four-hour and 26-minute speech, the longest ever delivered before the General Assembly, charged that U.S. "monopolists'' turned Cuba into a colony, concluded with a Red-eyed view of world problems. He took the Soviet position on disarmament ("We warmly support the Soviet proposal"), on the Congo ("The only leader is Lumumba"), on Red China ("We support seating the true representatives of the Chinese people"). Castro also started to attack U.S. Presidential Candidates Kennedy and Nixon but General Assembly President Patrick Boland asked him to stop...
Ph.D. Agents. Textbooks are not only the publisher's best sellers, they are his longest sellers. Though it takes from three to ten years to prepare a good textbook, once it wins educators' approval it sells for years with only periodic revisions. Last year 94.7% of Harcourt, Brace's school text sales and 80.3% of its college sales were from its backlist...
...mission against Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet that the great ship was given only enough fuel for a one-way trip from Japan. The battle for Okinawa, at the homeland's very door, was the death struggle of Japan, and its capture was the largest, longest amphibious operation of the Pacific...
...longest papal junket (more than 100 miles round trip) since Pius IX's horsecarriage tour of the Roman countryside in 1857, Pope John XXIII, 79, climbed into the armchair seat of his Chrysler, donated by U.S. Catholics, at 6:15 a.m. one morning last week. The purpose of the trip: a sentimental journey to the seminary at Roccantica where 56 years ago he said the second mass of his career. After admiring the olive-groved Sabine Hills through the plexiglas top of his speeding (frequently at more than 60 miles per hour) limousine, the Pope was greeted by townspeople...