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...from the starting line when three factory-backed Citroëns were penalized for exceeding Nairobi's posted speed limit of 30 m.p.h. Outside city limits, nature took over. A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe. Britain's Stirling Moss, essaying a backwoods comeback after the near-fatal accident that forced his retirement from the Grand Prix circuit three years ago, condescended to navigate for Brother-in-Law Erik Carlsson, and lost him cold-amid hot argument-somewhere west of Suez. Stirling's sister, Pat Moss Carlsson, was running...
Measuring Its Success. The Rosenblatts are Republicans, but editorially the Review lined up with Johnson and Democratic Senator-elect Frank E. Moss in the last election. Once, when a Utah state Republican representative, J. McKinnon Smith, threatened to "investigate as subversive" a model U.N. session conducted by Utah high school students, the Review editorialized: "Should Mr. Smith escape the call to public service at the polls next November, it has been suggested that he would make some corporation a wonderful vice president. These wags define a vice president as a man who goes to work in the morning and finds...
...fringes of the Western world, his work flirts with the Far East, draws from such predecessors as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt as well as the tendrilous enticements of Jugendstil or art nouveau. He mingles oils and tempera with gold and silver foil, beeswax, and bits of peat moss and sand to make his almost bitter, labyrinthine pastries...
...paradigm for the style is TRB's elegantly folksy column, which invariably eschews logic and statistics to come right to the point. Even when the point is a tired one, the freshness of TRB's verbal stream brings new clarity to the matter by rinsing away all the moss and scum of confusion: "Maybe it's unfortunate, but about the only counterweight the little man has to Big Business is Big Government; the record of the century is that business has grown big first, with government limping along behind...
PRESIDENT Johnson 96,832 Goldwater 81,413 U.S. SENATOR Moss (D) 188,347 Wilkinson (R) 140,261 GOVERNOR Rompton (D) 201,380 Melich...