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...visit to London, she was told by High Commissioner Menon: "You will not give interviews to the press unless I or one of my staff is present. I am ambassador here, not you." Mme. Pandit protested to her brother about Menon's arrogance, but to no avail. "Krishna can be both charming and irritating," she says. "But it's about three-fourths of one and one-fourth the other...
...court. "The legal and moral responsibility of him who delivers the victim to his death," said the judges, "is, in our opinion, no smaller, and may even be greater than the liability of him who does the victim to death." Similarly, the judgment dismissed as "of no avail" Eichmann's plea that he had only acted on orders from his government. This could not exempt "from their personal criminal responsibility those who gave, and those who carried out the order...
...Harvard-Princeton series picked up again, Princeton increased its desire for equality in the Big Three relationship. Many times since 1934 the Tigers have tried to get Harvard and Yale to alternate final games with them, but to no avail. Harvard and Yale welcomed Princeton back into the Big Three, but they refused to share their traditional get-together on the sacronsanct last Saturday of the season...
Even after this declaration, many Republican politicians remained convinced that Dick Nixon would still be avail able for the nomination in 1964. If Rockefeller and Goldwater fought to a draw in the primaries, the Republican Party would assuredly turn to Nixon. And, by hallowed custom, politicians-like women-have the right to change their minds. In the next 2½ years, a lot could happen in Republican politics to change Dick Nixon's mind...
...other plays in which Pirandello presents many kinds of acute mental aberration all take on in added dimension when one recalls that Pirandello's own wife went insane. Advised not to commit her to a sanitarium, he patiently and resignedly stayed home and pampered her, to no avail. For years, day after day, he wrote while she founded violently on his studio door, screamed threats, and huried accusations of infidelity. She also turned on her daughter, who then tried to commit suicide. Such a household would have destroyed a lesser...