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William Farquhar-Moody, an enterprising and imaginative British businessman, is trying to sell snakes to the Irish—to be used as watchdogs. Farquhar-Moody offers everything from pythons (you leave one in your automobile, for guaranteed protection against theft) to garter snakes (you keep one—and they are available in several colors—in your handbag to surprise the pickpockets). If he has any boa-constrictors for sale, the U.S. Treasury could use a few.

The attacks on Nixon (see below) continue. “It can’t be pinned on Nixon,” writes Mr. Hal Burton, columnist for Newsday, “but when he ran for Congress against the incumbent, Jerry Voorhis, thousands of constituents in his California district received a telephone call. ‘Did you know that Jerry Voorhis was a Communist?’ Whoever was calling would hang up. Of course, Nixon issued disavowals, but the phone calls continued. From this, you can draw a conclusion as to what sort of man he is”. In such fashion does the columnist attempt to demonstrate that Mr. Nixon is “a squalid person,” that never before have we had a Vice President “of such patent cynicism and so lacking in any sort of political morals”—to succeed, only, in compelling conclusions as to the sort of man Hal Burton is.

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William Farquhar-Moody, an enterprising and imaginative British businessman, is trying to sell snakes to the Irish—to be used as watchdogs. Farquhar-Moody offers everything from pythons (you leave one in your automobile, for guaranteed protection against theft) to garter snakes (you keep one—and they are available in several colors—in your handbag to surprise the pickpockets). If he has any boa-constrictors for sale, the U.S. Treasury could use a few.

The attacks on Nixon (see below) continue. “It can’t be pinned on Nixon,” writes Mr. Hal Burton, columnist for Newsday, “but when he ran for Congress against the incumbent, Jerry Voorhis, thousands of constituents in his California district received a telephone call. ‘Did you know that Jerry Voorhis was a Communist?’ Whoever was calling would hang up. Of course, Nixon issued disavowals, but the phone calls continued. From this, you can draw a conclusion as to what sort of man he is”. In such fashion does the columnist attempt to demonstrate that Mr. Nixon is “a squalid person,” that never before have we had a Vice President “of such patent cynicism and so lacking in any sort of political morals”—to succeed, only, in compelling conclusions as to the sort of man Hal Burton is.