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...growing concern that the Soviets are planning to upstage the U.S. by sending the first manned craft around the moon, NASA has folded a spectacular bonus into Apollo 8's schedule. If all goes well with Apollo 7, Apollo 8 will be shoved from earth orbit to ward the moon by the last stage of its Saturn 5 launch rocket...
...account seethes with contempt for conventional liberalism and the man who embodies it: the Democratic nominee. "Humphrey simply could not attach the language of his rhetoric to any reality; he was perfectly capable of using the same word, 'Freedom,' let us say, to describe a ward fix in Minneapolis and a gathering of Quakers. He was a politician; he could kiss babies, rouge, rubber, velvet, blubber and glass. God had not given him oral excellence for nothing...
...artificial, but excessive, as the smell of honeysuckle can be excessive." He describes Gene McCarthy's followers: "Their common denominator seemed to be in some blank area of the soul, a species of disinfected idealism which gave one the impression among them of living in a lobotomized ward of Upper Utopia...
...present price trends continue up ward, the average American will remember 1968 as a very expensive year. In August, the most recent month for which the consumer price index has been computed, prices rose 4.3% over the same month in 1967. For the year to date, they have risen 3% over...
...fact, however, Vellucci feels distinctly uncomfortable with all of these long-range problems and prefers to see himself as the last of the old time ward-heelers dealing in an informal way with local issues as they arise. To keep the teenagers out of trouble but--ultimately--in East Cambridge, he and his wife established a marching band, the Don Juan Drum and Bugle Corps, made up of a series of complicated major and minor leagues designed to involve every child under eighteen in the most noisy and enthusiastic if not the best musical enterprise in the city. To keep...