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Adolph ("The Baron") Rupp, University of Kentucky's basketball coach, is not a modest man. When asked to explain Kentucky's court success, Rupp has a ready reply: "That's easy. It's good coaching." Though Rupp's answer may affront rival coaches, the record backs up his contention. In Rupp's 23 coaching years, Kentucky teams have won more than 85% of their games, 14 Southeastern Conference titles, three N.C.A.A. championships, one National Invitation Tournament, one Olympic title. Unhappily, some of the Olympians were caught taking bribes (TIME...
...bids you 'slip your feet into these easygoing leisuals and breathe a sigh of real comfort' . . . The New Yorker spotted a movie theater sign on which 'adultery' was used to mean 'adulthood.' From an English periodical I learn that some new houses 'affront the opposite side of the street.' If Mrs. Malaprop is going to become the patron saint of English, what is going to prevent 'contention' from meaning the same thing as 'contentment' or the maker of woodcuts from being called a woodcutter...
...juries have found that the meters are competent witnesses and entirely legal. But there was a great deal of argument over the ethics of using the unseen screen. ¶In Madison, Wis., the director of the state branch of the American Automobile Association publicly denounced the meters as an affront to law-abiding drivers. ¶In Rochester, motorists who put tin foil or steel marbles in their hubcaps in an unsuccessful effort to foul the detectors were charged with attempting to obstruct justice as well as with speeding.† ¶ In Manchester, Conn., the Chamber of Commerce and auto dealers...
Myopia & Light. In the resultant editorial hand-wringing the world over, the sensitive Indians were probably the most bitter. THE WORLD'S CHAMPION BLUNDERER, headlined the middle-of-the-road People of Lucknow, meaning the U.S. "An affront to peace," said the big Times of India. "History will not pardon her [the U.S.]" said Calcutta's conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position...
...member of the "detaining side" (which means, in effect, that a U.S. or other trusted U.N. officer will watch every Red attempt to cajole the prisoners). The text provides that: "No force or threat of force shall be used . . . and no violence to their persons or affront to their dignity or self-respect shall be permitted ..." The fate of anti-Communist prisoners who refuse to go home will be discussed by a post-truce political conference; if the conference fails to agree on their disposition within 30 days, the prisoners will be transferred to civilian status and helped...