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...Richard Nixon won close to 70% of Virginia's presidential vote, and one result was an unexpected defeat for Moderate Democrat William B. Spong Jr., 52. Spong had led Republican William L Scoff, 57, for much of the campaign. One reason: Scott, a three-term Fairfax Congressman, was presumably so inept that the Washington Post stoned him for "unimpressive service" in the House and "shallow understanding" of the Senate...
Consider L.A.'s notorious sprawl. Banham finds the city did not spread like a cancer to its present 455 sq. mi. Its precise shape was predetermined decades ago by the Pacific Electric Railway's network of rapid-transit tracks. Though critics frequently scoff that such sprawl makes L.A. seem like 100 communities in search of a city, Banham sees instead the excitement of diversity. The jumble of freeways that has replaced the old P.E. railway has maintained the diversity. Far from being destroyers of the urban texture, Banham says, the superhighways "seem to have fixed Los Angeles...
...with a charmingly ironic humor. "How good we feel," he wrote to the exuberant Pirckheimer. "Both of us, I with my picture and you with your wisdom. When we are praised we turn up our noses and believe it all. But a nasty mocker might stand behind us and scoff at us." Happily, the future turned out otherwise...
...attempt to get a cheap laugh. [Cheap laughter.] It is a very difficult piece of athletic apparatus, and I worked it simply because it was the only piece of apparatus that our team could afford. And if you ever saw me on the side horse, you'd come to scoff but remain to pray. [Laughter.] . . . Jesse, I have to run. I'm very busy. And I'll tell you, I have an opening across town. I'm sorry. [Hilarity...
...massive increase in the housing effort up to $22 million over the next ten years. An increase of roughly $150 million in the poverty budget, however, must compete with the new expensive campaign the state will undertake to fight environmental pollution. The poverty scholars, it should be known, scoff at the new fashion for ecology...