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...learns that his son David (he has another son, but he is half-Negro and does not count) has been arrested with a bunch of freedom riders and beaten to sour mash in jail. It is enough to make a man get religion -and that is what old Tim Denney does. Before anyone could say John Brown, he votes for civil rights, gets his dam, retires from politics, and is named Best Christian of the Year. Au thor Coffin, who once put in time as a legman for Drew Pearson, is obviously sincere in his fictionalized pamphleteering. Fortunately, the cause...
Loser Lawrence was no isolated vic tim. Of the 70 million credit cards in circulation in the U.S., no fewer than 1,500,000 are lost each year, and of these 60,000 have been stolen. Illicit charges run up on a stolen card are estimated to average $500. And stealing credit cards is an increasingly popular crime; dollar losses from their misuse increased eightfold from...
...components for a lot of words. Using what he calls "visual dictation," tapping the charts with a pointer, Dr. Gattegno lets students discover with delight that strings of sounds make words, then whole sentences, including such swinging examples as "Pat met on a mat a man as fat as Tim." The decipherability of language thus established, the drill moves on to tougher orthography: weigh, height, eye, diaphragm, for example...
...Derby and Preakness with ease. The only thing against him was history. At H mi., the Belmont is the longest of the Triple Crown races, and in the 15 years since Citation, odds-on favorites have lost seven times. Two, like the Dancer, were trying for a triple: Tim Tarn in 1958 (a broken-legged second), and Carry Back in 1961 (a dismal seventh...
...kept a slightly mystified and slightly hostile silence, as if they did not understand the newcomer and hardly cared. "A homogeneous mixture of merits and cunning," cabled the Washington correspondent of Le Monde in a recent attempt to translate Johnson into Gallic terms. In L'Express, Editorial Cartoonist Tim was even blunter...