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...challenge of Nikita Khrushchev's Sputnik III, a cone-shaped monster weighing almost 1½ tons and launched by a rocket obviously bigger than any in the U.S. arsenal, brought no sense of panic or dismay. Instead, it was accepted as another stern warning that the U.S. must push hard on its own missile program, turn at least one deaf ear to propaganda talk of easy disarmament...
...that Capp has made of Harvard in Li'l Abner resulted in Yale's being destroyed by the sweep of a lizard's tail. Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat--two of Dogpatch's more colorful denizens--got hold of a tiny lizard that matured into a giant pre-historic monster. While this process of growth was going on, Joe and Polecat were awarded veterans' scholarships--Polecast fought against the U.S. Army and Joe fought against Polecat in the Indian wars--and went to Harvard. On the way north, they stopped at New Haven, and shouting "Us Harvards hates Yo'-Yales...
When the idea for the organization, according to Stone, was first presented to the members of the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, "most of them approved of it outright. A few wanted to know how it would affect them. They were afraid the HSA would become some sort of monster...
...telephone campaigns. Chicago salesmen sported handkerchiefs hopefully-but falsely -embroidered "Business Is Good." In St. Louis, Milwaukee, Dallas, Atlanta. "You Auto Buy Now" campaigns assaulted the public pocketbook. With an assist from Chevy Salesman Power, New York dealers kicked off their campaign with Ringling Bros. circus acts at a monster Madison Square Garden rally. In Los Angeles, a parade of new cars led by a show girl in a pink, fur-trimmed Thunderbird implored everyone to buy, buy, buy. But the air was also filled with discordant notes. As the "You Buy" cavalcade rolled down Hollywood Boulevard, a motorist cruised...
Before being paroled (TIME, March 3), Leopold served 33 years of his sentence (life plus 99 years) in Illinois prisons for his share in the "Crime of the Century." His account of how he made the transition from front-page monster to model prisoner is pitiable, but it would need genius-which his friends seem to claim for him, and which he seems not to have -to make the story tragic. Such men as Leopold lead a strange existence-condemned to life, but forbidden to live it. The main part of the book is concerned with details of prison existence...