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...large. Dr. Herriot's world is not one of pampering but of windswept, hardscrabble farms run by families who need their animals for transport, income or food. Thus the worried calls reporting "summat amiss" frequently mark the unspoken fear that the caller's family may face a winter with no milk money for clothing or no home-cured ham for the table...
Initially, at least, authorities could not even determine whether the two men died of gunshot wounds or shrapnel from tear-gas canisters. Some 200 lawmen, including state policemen and Sheriff Al Amiss' deputies, had set up a U-shaped cordon in front of the administration building that about 200 students had occupied. The officers were armed with both shotguns and tear-gas canisters; but television film suggested that it was the students who tossed the first tear-gas bombs. Both Amiss and the state police claim that their men fired no shots, only tear gas, while students insisted that...
...Distinguished Flying Cross. A warrant officer in the Utah National Guard, McCoy showed up for a scheduled training stint only hours after parachuting from the United plane in a risky night maneuver. Fellow Guardsman Van leperen said McCoy had given no indication at the Guard session that anything was amiss. "Richard's my best friend," he added in disbelief. "He's one of the finest people I know." McCoy's well-publicized hijacking quickly triggered others...
...cannot believe that you have quoted correctly my esteemed colleague, Professor Jaffe. In any event, as a fellow member with Professor Jaffe of the Press's Board of Syndics, it may not be amiss for me to record my opinion that the Harvard University Press has by any standard a most distinguished publication list. To be aware of this, it suffices to observe that in economics, a field with which I am especially concerned, the press has published through the years some of the most important landmarks of our time, such as Samuelson's Foundations., Chamberlain's Monopolistic Competition, Haberler...
Perhaps it would not be amiss for the country to adopt a position close to the one allegedly voiced by Napoleon, to the effect that "history is only a fable agreed upon." Accordingly, whatever the truth of the claims summarized above under the first aspect of our subject, we might simply agree to say: "We've had a President and Vice-President with black ancestry. So what's all the excitement? Let's get on with taking care of business, with electing the people best capable of governing. And there's no need to panic if we have black blood...