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...animal Author Nathan is really aiming at, of course, is man; in the shape of Sir Henry, he makes a fine target. No longer young, prudent Sir Henry is just a run-of-the-mill knight who wears old-fashioned armor, travels with a hot-water bottle and suffers from nosebleed after battle. Head up, though run down after his encounter with the dragon, he is lucky enough to beat the daylights out of another knight and win a second fair maid. This doubles his troubles. With two women to choose between, Sir Henry becomes the eternal, quintessential male - totally...
Even the McCarthy-backing "Committee for Ten Million" developed a major chink in its armor. General (ret.) James A. Van Fleet, the committee's biggest name, fired off a telegram to McCarthy saying that he was "shocked by your personal bitter attack," which "causes me to withdraw all support...
Died. Major General Charles Scott, 71, pioneer in mechanized armor, commander in 1940 of the 2nd Armored ("Hell on Wheels") Division, later (1943-45) chief of U.S. Armored Forces; of emphysema; in Washington...
...lost none of his tongue's facile sharpness. Eying the rigors of a world toying with the idea of "peaceful coexistence" (he calls it "competitive coexistence"), Thomas placed his bet on the West: "Our democracy is like a reluctant knight going out to engage the dragon. His armor is on awry and he drives out his horse with no flash of enthusiasm, but somehow in the end the dragon poops out and our knight wins." He glibly switched metaphors to tick off one of democracy's own current ailments: to him, Senator Joseph McCarthy may be viewed without...
...Yale Law has in a sense retreated from its advanced position on the legal battlefield, Harvard has discarded some of its nineteenth century armor for modern, imaginative weapons--weapons resembling Yale's former revolutionary doctrines. Dean Erwin Griswold jokingly says, "Yale talks about it; we do it." As he told the entering class in 1954, law "has deep roots in the past. It presents a continuity of development which must be understood if the law of the present is to be mastered. But it also has a flexibility, a capability for growth and development, which is as much a part...