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...cover on Lenin. The story, as you recall, said that the Order of Lenin was pinned on Khrushchev by President Leonid Brezhnev, and that Khrushchev's colleagues saluted him as a "militant leader, a fiery tribune, giving his burning energy in the service of the cause of Communism." Sic transit gloria...
...desire for monetary gain, but rather a sincere desire to save her country, motivated a local housewife to open the Book Pedlar. "AMERICANISM and our Christian heritage is [sic] the sheme and story of the Book Pedlar," she says in a small printed note of explanation. "Today, with the realization that we are living in an age when the world stands at a great spiritual crossroad--there is a definite need to distinguish truth from error. Militant atheism is waging a concerted battle for the control of the minds of men...and Americans are challenged to meet this threat...
...Rand, but the stripper and the seaside town both exude a garish, garter-snapping exuberance that has largely disappeared from affluent America. The boardwalk - and for most visitors the boardwalk is Atlantic City - is an unbelievable anachronism, a eupeptic blend of pre-war Coney Island and a Victorian mu sic hall, where vulgarity, dodgem-car din, sentimentality and pushy camara derie reign uninhibited and unabashed...
...grand jury but have not yet had the opportunity to make their defenses in court. I wonder, in view of the fact that proceedings before grand juries are absolutely secret, whether it is bad taste or worse to refer to rumors that the head of the Massachusetts "Turnpike Commission" (sic) would have been indicted, had he not died...
Close to the canvas himself in the third and seemingly helpless in the fifth, Clay entered the sixth round obviously stronger than the 31 (sic)-year-old Liston. Clay was never hit with the full impact of Liston's awesome left hook, but he withstood considerable punishment and retained the speed and deceptivenss which rendered Liston sluggish and frustrated by the sixth...