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...Treasury, pricks him with the barbed wish that some day he may hear a Butler speech which does not talk about "unity, stability, flexibility, and all the other 'itys.' " "Those are all nouns or virtues," Butler retorts, "to which the Right Honorable Gentleman and his friends attach little importance." And a rare smile lights Rab's wintry face, as chill and fleeting as breath seen on a cold morning. It is a maxim of Butler's-and he does nothing politically which is unstudied-that charity to the enemy is profitable in the long...
Stevens, former naval attaché in Moscow and author of the bestselling Russian Assignment (TIME, Nov. 16). After three years in Air Corps Intelligence in Ice land, young Stevens came out a captain...
Since the proctors do provide these services, and are trained to handle trouble with a minimum of shouting and shoving, they are fairly well liked. Their plain clothing does not attach the stigma of police to them; but at the same time, Kopliner insists that, while on duty, they always wear hats. Since few students wear them on the Princeton campus, "hats" has become both a nickname and trademark for the proctors. While they continue to provide a broad-shouldered, benevolent curb to party spirits, and while the care and comfort of students is the main industry of the Princeton...
Auto manufacturers, Harper insists, could easily reduce the killing effect of accidents. One simple improvement would be to attach the seats so firmly that they cannot come loose and toss the passenger into the windshield. Another would be to pad the dashboard properly and remove its projecting knobs, which Harper calls "fangs of death." Even at very slow speeds a person can die of a punctured skull if his head hits a fang of death...
...towing several inflated rubber bags. When the officer shouted at him, the swimmer dived and escaped. Inspectors who got the bags out of the water found that they contained American tool bits, of a type in great demand in Communist China. The Communist frogman had hoped to attach them to the ferry's hull, for the journey out of Hong Kong's territorial waters. After that, smuggling them into Red China would have been easy...