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...their feet. The ground was slipping out from under Americans -- to foreign investors, to revenue collection that has become a vast servicing of our debt, to cold war commitments that do not exude power but exhaust it, to involuntary and unconfessed curtailments of our postwar imperial mission. Who could advert to these amid the smoke of muskets and the feeble blaze of opposed "likabilities...
...riddle of reality. Do Ippo and the others owe their existence to the anesthesiologist? Did he surprise Sheila, his unfaithful wife, in flagrante delicto? Was the tumor removed? Was there a tumor? Uncertain and yearning to know, he ventures out again and at once bumps into Ippo, a walking advert for JOE'S ALL-NIGHT SAUSAGES...
...must also advert to the charge of "irresponsibility" made against me by Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. His position apparently is that all discussion of new possibilities in nuclear technology is "irresponsible" and "scare" talk. From a nuclear scientist who must know that nuclear technology is in its infancy and that its possibilities are almost endless this statement is incomprehensible. He further maintains that nothing must "inhibit the government" in its endeavor to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union on the cessation of nuclear tests. He apparently shares the current obsession...
Several Democratic professors have taken leaves of absence to be with their man during the fall or have constant pipelines open to Washington headquarters. Fuller prefers the relaxed approach, watching the campaign from Cambridge and giving advert when sought. He thinks that the political overestimates the influence of academic people in the campaign. The distance between practical political and learned scholar increases easily...
...Fine Advert." Finally the meeting ended and the audience shuffled out followed by a handful of puzzled parents. It had been far from a boisterous success, but Copping was not discouraged. Last week he began laying plans to divide Britain up into districts and to launch a recruiting drive. His enthusiasm was shared by at least one other adult-Cane Manufacturer Eric Wildman, who had dropped in to hear Copping's manifesto at Kingsway Hall. Wildman thought the Copping thesis might bring on its own swift reactionary antithesis, with more corporal punishment than before, and great benefit to canemakers...