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...these lousy kids come in from outside and spoil the market," said Avery, an expensively groomed seller and an avid reader of science fiction. "The new cats burn (cheat) everybody," added his girlfriend, Stinger, in the suitable Hippese...
...known to the world that this faithful reader has made an epochal invention, the minus vote. In addition to the plus vote that every voter already has to vote for a candidate, he will now be given a minus vote to be used against a candidate. At the election, the total of a candidate's minus votes will be deducted from that of his plus votes. In this way, if a voter cannot favor any candidate, he can at least cast a ballot against the one he likes least. Too bad this solution comes too late for the November...
...your story on the two recent balls in Portugal and Soraya's comment on them, I would like to transmit to you the feeling-as a reader and subscriber-that TIME can err as an unusual consequence of work, but should apologize whenever necessary for the errors, especially if personal images are involved. It is a fact that Soraya did not attend any of the parties, and I'm afraid TIME can't be sure of her having made the referred-to statement. So, TIME should loyally apologize, and not just "note the demurrer...
...above the humdrum. But since Warren is a paraplegic, Arthur a near-spastic and Junie a hideously deformed victim of an acid attack, the atmosphere is already painfully tense. The challenge for the author is to keep everybody's emotions-his own, his protagonists' and the reader's-from getting out of control...
...tornado. He has sung and danced as well as Fred Astaire, is a more cunning producer than David Susskind, more urbane than CBS Board Chairman William Paley, ad nauseam. The rest of the characters are ill-disguised caricatures of CBS executives. They are such a kinky crew that the reader may well wonder how CBS stays in business...