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...British press competed for the most apt description of Britain's latest show of power. Among the entries: "the Bay of Piglets," "the Paper Blitzkrieg" and "War in a Teacup." I SAY CHAPS, cried a banner headline in the London Evening News, THE NATIVES ARE FRIENDLY. In the Commons, a Tory rose and, with broad irony, asked Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary Michael Stewart: "Will the right honorable gentleman convey to the Prime Minister the congratulations of the House on at last taking on somebody of his own size?" Harold Wilson had not sent troops into Nigeria, or settled...
...Sears, Roebuck Catalogue. Israel held the paper up to the light and was startled to see a turreted fortress emblazoned with the word Conqueror. In a letter acknowledging the order, Dr. Israel added this P.S.: "I noticed the watermark on your stationery, and I am wondering if it is apt." Replied Bunker: "I had never noticed the watermark. If it has any appropriateness, I hope it means that our conquest will be in the realm of peace." (P.S. This time the stationery bore no watermark...
Stop, You're Killing Me is an apt title for a bloodstained package of three one-act plays by James Leo Herlihy, presented by the Theater Company of Boston. The title's aptness lies not only in its suggestion of homicide, but humor-each of the three is laughing on the outside while dying on the inside...
...will face some of the nation's top teams during the trip. In the first three days, the Crimson battles C.W. Post, hard-hitting Rutgers, and perenniel powerhouse Navy. Games with Maryland and Farleigh Dickinson conclude the trip. Unlike Harvard, these teams have all been practicing outside and are apt to be well prepared...
...dismay of her more cautious peers, she has always been ready to apply her anthropological findings to the contemporary world. During World War II, for example, she wrote a booklet telling G.I.s how to get along with British girls (because of cultural differences, she warned, they were apt to think that an American's playful advances were meant more seriously than he intended). "Margaret sees herself as the mother of us all," says Child Psychologist Martha Wolfenstein, one of her longtime collaborators...