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...reaching out to broaden its growing base. No longer does the state suggest a congeries of retired queen bees, living unproductive Jives on husbands' insurance and making the worker bees who serve them miserable with demanding, captious ways and parsimonious tips. Florida has become a boiling melting pot, mixing retired Ohioans with young Michiganders, New Englanders with Hoosiers. The state now boasts not only the world's largest shuffleboard club (in St. Petersburg) but its largest missile testing ground (at Cape Canaveral), and air-conditioned jails for its increasing criminal population, one undesirable byproduct of growth...
...novel, it is true, might seem more likely to appeal to a mass audience than a grisly book like Malcolm. But The Nephew has not had much critical or popular success since its release last winter. It is too deliberately paced and too introspective to qualify as a mere pot boiler. Purdy has obviously not sold himself...
...reason, individualism, and capitalism, Miss Rand asserted. Every man, she said, is an end in himself. He must neither sacrifice himself to others or sacrifice others to himself. She called the morality of altruism "moral cannibalism," stating that the consistent altruist "would have to jump into the nearest cannibal pot, because there is always somebody who wants your mind or body...
...authority, but the Senate denied it, and Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, extracted a promise from his Senate Democratic colleague, Agriculture Committee Chairman Allen Ellender, that he would not give Freeman the power to drop prices. To help this toothless program through Congress, Secretary Freeman sweetened the pot to the tune of some $2 billion this year by raising support prices for dairy farmers, with a few special increases for rice and peanuts...
...plan might open the way for expansion, Labaree noted, "If you divided the Yard into units of 220, and wanted to add 250 freshmen to the class, the units would still have just 270 each. Otherwise, you would only add 250 freshmen to a large, somewhat disorganised pot...