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...obsession" that has been fanned and exploited by opportunistic politicians. "The treatment of the obsession, it seems to me, is obvious. It is to meet the real part of it, the Communist conspiracy, with realistic plans for defense; and to cope with the other . . . parts of it with the age-old specifics for such troubles . . . the specifics of law and learning...
...abuilding $7,000,000 Nanyang University (TIME, Aug. 16), rose before some 300 women to make a speech titled "Dress Is Civilization." Cried Dr. Lin, who thinks like a Confucius but dresses like a Coolidge: "Men should dress neatly, sensibly and efficiently, but let us do away with this age-old Nordic fashion-the tie. Give us a few inches around our necks. You ladies can take off your jackets when it is too hot, and appear in your blouses. Why not men?" A curious woman in his audience then asked Dr. Lin why, contrary to his sartorial convictions...
...Doctors' age-old habit of looking at the patient's tongue is a waste of time, suggested London's Dr. Bruno Gans in the British Medical Journal. He found "no connection between a furred tongue and the state of the tonsils, the teeth ... a poor appetite or the action of the bowels...
...Anthony Eden cabled: "I am delighted." Colonel Nasser, in triumph, was more sober. "Another struggle is beginning," he said. "We must not be intoxicated." His government, no longer able to divert attention from its troubles by blaming everything on the British, must now get down to Egypt's age-old unsolved problems-overpopulation, disease, illiteracy, poverty...
...European army she will be almost on the same footing as everyone else. Geography is closing in on the reluctant British. They will fight to make Europe a "second force" which will contain their old isolationism in a new and larger form. They will intertwine it with the age-old instinct which always leads Britain to attempt to maintain the status quo at an equilibrium and with the longing which all Britons have-but know now that they can never fulfill-to be "a right little, tight little island...