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Deliberate Man. To avert such a blood bath, Song deliberately set out to jolt Rhee out of the presidency. In three successive interviews, the general hammered at Rhee with heavy hints that if the students rioted again, the Korean army would probably refuse to shoot or even to quell them, and the two U.S. divisions manning the border with North Korea might well be withdrawn from the peninsula. Rhee listened, but temporized...
...reserved for artists and intellectuals. The procession that came was impressive-birdlike Igor Stravinsky, rehearsing his Firebird in jeans he insisted on calling "pantaloons"; the leonine head of Albert Schweitzer bowed over a keyboard; ebullient Mortimer Adler conducting a rapid-fire philosophical discussion while sweating in a sauna (Finnish bath). "The Aspen idea," said Paepcke, "is the cross-fertilization of men's minds...
...nation's Africans could be thankful that the assassin was white. If he had been black, a blood bath might have followed. For the blacks, the week had already been bitter enough as Verwoerd's police and troops relentlessly worked to stamp out the dying embers of revolt. Chief quarry was the ringleaders who still urged blacks to stay at home rather than return to their jobs in white men's shops and factories...
Brower reorganized and streamlined the agency in what he himself describes as a "blood bath" that swept out many employees. Then he set out to get new clients, won such new accounts as CBS, Air France, Book-of-the-Month Album Club, Coty, Gallo wines, and the $7,000,000 Valiant account, which proved so successful, says Brower, that "we lost the account-Dodge said that they just had to have...
Dipping Sitz. As for the bathtub, one of the more notable types was the slipper or boot bath, the comfortable contraption in which Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday. In the 19th century, one bathed according to the nature of his ailments. A sitz, or semicuphim, bath was recommended for congestion of the brain, and a "dipping sitz," did wonders for "nervous debility and a relaxed condition of the generative parts." An overheated brain could be cooled by a foot bath, but bathers were warned to keep their toes in motion...