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...Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold struggled to patch up relations between his students and New Haven cops-askew after last month's snowball-and-night-stick war (TIME, March 30)-an old grad unkindly recalled some carefree words addressed to a student mob in 1951, less than a year after Griswold had taken office. Said the president, in the green days of administrative youth: "I love a riot . . . I loved them when I was an undergraduate . . . I can yield to no one the record of smashed light bulbs...
...Capote is about the size of Napoleon, only thinner. He was wrapped in an off-white, chart-paper tweed suit, with a striped shirt and a black bow tie slightly askew. He looks like a blond Mr. Peepers and talks like a Fleet Street 14-year-old whose voice is about to change. He manages, however, to live down both impressions...
Spin-Stabilization. All other hardware seems to have functioned perfectly. The second stage, a considerably modified second stage of the ill-starred Vanguard, pushed the vehicle to 188 miles above the earth while small vernier rockets, set askew, made it spin on its axis at no r.p.m. The function of this spin-stabilization, like the spin of a rifle bullet, was to keep the vehicle from tumbling on its journey through space...
...career he was five minutes late. Otherwise Rayner Goddard, 81, gave no sign that this day in court would be different from any other in his twelve years as Lord Chief Justice of England. With his crimson robe sweeping the ground, his luxuriant wig, as usual, just a trifle askew, he strode into the paneled courtroom one day last week, seated himself in his big leather chair, jotted a note or two with a tiny silver pencil, and after fumbling with his ever-precarious pince-nez motioned for the session to begin. He seemed oblivious to the unusually large crowd...
...Protestant Episcopal Church. He saw another part with the solemn, pince-nezed gaze of a reform-minded lawyer and jurist. The worst of what he saw was symbolized by James John Walker, New York City's twice-elected (1925, 1929) mayor. Jimmy Walker, top hat perched jauntily askew, wisecracked his way through the '20s like a handsome Bacchus, and it was perhaps inevitable that he would one day clash with stern, silver-haired Samuel Seabury...