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There must have been more to the thirties than the residue of cliches which Clifford Odets managed to preserve. A playwright with a petty temper, an unselective ear and an axe to grind, Odets savors little cliches that clutter his dialogue ("right from the word go . . .") and big ones that blur his vision ("last week I wanted to go to Russia...
...matter were those associated with the military, that is, with the very men who originated the idea. Such advice can hardly be considered disinterested; indeed, Secretary General U Thant in a speech made before the explosion spoke of the many scientists who condemned the test as men "with no axe to grind." The implication was obvious...
...happy medium between income and growth also showed up considerably better on the whole than the Dow-Jones average. Assets of Investors Mutual, the world's largest fund, which is managed by Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, were cut onlv 11.3% by the crash. Explains Mrs. Ruth Axe. president of New York's Axe-Houghton Funds, whose balanced Fund A is off only 14.8% : "We had stocks of better earnings ratios which were less vulnerable...
...student with a twisted sense of humor (and a bulging purse, as Harvard is rather fond of administering fines) could gambol through years of unrestrained practical and emerge without a scratch. the line between the petty prank and the felony that causes the axe to thin indeed. The Dean's Office will only smile sadly at the student who took a month's vacation to in the middle of the term, for attendance as a rule is strictly voluntary. But should a student be at his desk intently studying of Joyce he has taken from the library without signing...
Leet has no political axe to grind. "I was naive enough to believe that science was objective in anyone's hands, but that Vela data was as full of holes as Swiss cheese. Three months ago I wasn't aware that it would be carried over and used at Geneva. How the hell can a thing like this go on? When I found out I was mad enough to do some digging." The Professor, who was born in Alliance, Ohio, sixty-one years ago, has a ready laugh still untainted by cynicism. He knows it seems quixotic for a lone...