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...three times-the last time to his 27-year-old secretary, who made him "coo like the proverbial dove"-Sir Thomas always professed surprise at his fearsome reputation. "I am," he would say, "a peaceful and harmless man." The whole trouble was that most people did not "give a rap" about music: "It is a parasitical luxury supported...
...hardly was, that it all and unbegullingly wasn't for likes" of him--poor decent --to rap out queries the owner of the to him and unsuggestive name that these days, been thrust on with such a wealth of gesture, was precisely now, as he took, with his list of New Year colfichets whatever, his way to the great palace, fairly flicked his with the sense of his never so let himself in, as he phrased it, without letting any by the same token...
...enable at least part of humanity to beat this rap, Cole proposes the development of giant spaceships, each of which would contain at least 10,000 individual humans who would function rather like the cells of a multicelled animal; collectively, they would constitute what Cole calls a unit of "macrolife." Stowed along with the humans in the vast body of the macroorganism would be domestic animals, plants, raw materials, machines and computers, as well as microfilms of all the books in the Library of Congress. A fully developed unit of macrolife would have rocket propulsion to enable it to move...
That it hardly was, that it all bleakly and unbeguilingly wasn't for "the likes" of him-poor decent Stamfordham- to rap out queries about the owner of the to him unknown and unsuggestive name that had, in these days, been thrust on him with such a wealth of commendatory gesture, was precisely what now, as he took, with his prepared list of New Year colifichets and whatever, his way to the great gaudy palace, fairly flicked his cheek with the sense of his having never before so let himself in, as he ruefully phrased it, without letting anything...
...influential heyday, Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, now finished with a three-month stretch for contempt of court and adjudged psychologically incompetent to stand trial on a tax evasion rap, tried to extend his sphere of largesse beyond Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. Among other grand gestures, Goldfine once sent every state Governor a bolt of costly vicuna fabric turned out in his own mills. One Governor who never returned the gift was Michigan Democrat G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, Jack Kennedy's new Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Last week, at a farewell party thrown for him by Michigan...