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...gangsterism to maintain party strength. Truman claims to be honest, but he is unable to stop the tax fixing said widespread petty corruption in his own administration. And as far as civil rights and personal liberties go, McCarran's bite is a good deal more deadly than McCarthy's bark...
This Alice-in-Wonderland atmosphere was thickened by the mixture of formality and laxity that prevailed at court. No one dined with the Queen without invitation -but this might come in the form of a cockney footman's brisk bark to a roomful of ladies-in-waiting: "All what's 'ere dines with the Queen." Ponsonby was not allowed to smoke, even when decoding dispatches in his own room; the stench, complained the Queen, permeated the papers. But, on occasion, footmen and Highland servants could get so drunk that a royal dinner was punctuated by .the crash...
...since 1640, when extracts of "Jesuits' bark" (cinchona) from Peru first gave Europeans the benefits of quinine for their "ague," has there been such good news for the world's malaria victims, who number hundreds of millions. Doctors can now handle a feverish flare-up caused by practically any type of malaria, and they can prevent relapses in most types. More progress has been made in the last dozen years than in the last three centuries. Last week the A.M.A. Journal published up-to-date reports on some of the latest drugs, based on the experience of G.I.s...
With these results to consider, politicians began to revise their thinking about California. Earl Warren has dim prospects as a compromise candidate in a situation that seems more & more to be a straight Ike-Taft contest. California's more promising figure now is Knowland, who has the bark & grain of vice-presidential timber...
...back their bark with a bite, the authorities will remove from the Student Employment Bureau list the names of families who habitually return too late...