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...Oliver P. Barber plowed into the back of a police car, paid a $200 fine despite his testimony that the slurred speech, watery eyes and walking staggers noted by cops had actually been caused by a loose dental plate, an asthma-sinus condition, and a boyhood mishap with an ax that had damaged several tendons in his left foot...
...45° angle; if he tilts to 50°, the whole Hill knows that Clarence Cannon is on a rampage. He judges his subcommittee chairmen by the amount by which they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat ax to the foreign aid bill (the Senate restored some of the cut). He held Passman up to the full committee as a shining example of the positive statesman. Says Cannon: "Of course they all laughed...
...shelters set in tiny jungle clearings. The camps were always empty, but piles of fresh coconut shells and animal bones proved that Xetás were near. Logs showed charred holes where fires had been kindled by friction. At last, in the sixth camp, Professor Loureiro" found a stone ax. "It was fantastic," he said. "A Stone Age implement in actual use by living hands...
...charged with molesting a woman in a local cinema, and the newspaper reports that he was not a major at all but only a lieutenant, and that he spent the war in a supply depot. This makes for several other complications because the resident battle-ax (Gladys Cooper) soon starts swinging for The Major's head. She demands that he be forced to leave the hotel, even though-or perhaps because-she knows that her shy, hysterical daughter (Deborah Kerr) is in love with the old fraud...
Mills calls the justification for the military establishment the "military metaphysic", and the justification for the preservation of this establishment--"crackpot realism." He has the ax out for the "Power Elite" he described in his earlier book of that name--the intertwined combination of the military, the businessmen, and the politicians. Military and businessmen partake of the "military metaphysic" for reasons of self-interest, claims Mills, for the politicians, it "provides a cover under which they can abdicate the perils of innovative leadership; it provides a cover for their use of military bureaucrats--the only large pool of professional civil...