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...perhaps more important body of economic thought has been unjustly slighted, by Harvard for some years now. That body, far from dead and indeed enjoying tremendous vitality today, is laissez-faire, free-market economics. There are no laissez-fairists, no true capitalists (though plenty of state-capitalists), no "Austrians," no libertarians, no free-maketeers of any variety in the Harvard economics department. The last to be here, to our knowledge, was a disciple of the Austrian school (Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, Mises) who left three years...
Some time in 1915, for instance, Hasek checked into a hotel-brothel in Prague, registering under a Russian-sounding name. On the accompanying police questionnaire, he gave as his reason for being in Prague, "to investigate the activities of the Austrian general staff." The police at once surrounded the hotel. They discovered that the Russian name spelled backward came out in Czech as "Kiss my arse." Blandly Hašek explained that he just wanted to see if the Austrian police were on their toes-and got off with five days in jail...
...action started on the tennis court, where Cincinnati Reds Leftfielder Pete Rose stole the show if not the prize. He overcame his lack of experience -only four months on the court-to beat Austrian Skier Karl Schranz. "This game's like badminton," Rose declared happily after taking one game from Schranz by diving across the court to make an impossible forehand return...
...translation was also a lot shorter--it ended with Svejk, dressed in a Russian uniform, being captured by the Austrian army, whereas Parrott's new one tells all about his subsequent trial. It also includes many of the digressions that Paul Selver cut out. Some of the digressions are extremely funny--for instance, Animal World magazine's ex-editor's description of the Sulphur-Bellied Whale, the Artful Prosperian, the Edible Ox ("the ancient prototype of the cow") and the Sepia Infusorian ("which I characterized as a sort of sewer rat")--and others are hardly funny...
...blonde policewoman at his side halted near by. Pretending to be tourists taking pictures, they managed to get a close look at the suspected kidnapers. Once back in Rome, the police identified the Calabrians and then shadowed them for a month before making the arrests. Young Getty, on an Austrian ski vacation with his mother, volunteered to fly to Rome to identify the suspects. Police are still seeking Saverio Mammoliti, who they think is "very close to the brain, or rather brains, behind the plot...