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...Worth Defending? Feeling a desperate need for some sort of morale-saving fight, Washington quickly sent two small forces of Rhode Islanders, Virginians and Connecticut Rangers south across the Hollow Way (approximately 125th Street), and soon a brisk tussle started for possession of a buckwheat field atop the heights on which Columbia University and Riverside Church now stand. Though Knowlton (after saying, "I do not value my life if we do but get the day") fell mortally wounded, the Continentals fought their way out of the rocks and for the first time "had the pleasure of seeing the backs...
Henry Holland, the brisk 43-year-old Texas lawyer chosen by President Eisenhower in 1954 to be the U.S. Government's No. i specialist in Latin American affairs, asked for his release from service last week. In a letter to Ike, Holland pointed out that he had stretched "the understanding that I would serve two years" by six months "to include the balance of the last session of Congress as well as the meeting of American Presidents in Panama. The time has now come when I believe it would be appropriate for me to return to private life...
Much of the credit for the center's rapid growth belongs to brisk, balding, 62-year-old Dean Storey, a veteran corporation lawyer who did not complete his undergraduate education until 1947 (he got into practice by "reading the law"). Dean Storey has paid less attention to physical expansion (the center is still housed in the original three buildings) than he has to attracting top legal talent to his 18-man faculty. With the center's influence firmly established in the U.S. and Latin America (where it tries to operate as a kind of miniature United Nations), Storey...
...steel, was displayed by its inventor. J. F. Schaffhausen, of Cockshutt Farm Equipment. Inc., in Doylestown, Pa. Sparing the farmer from the seasons, says Schaffhausen, will reduce fatigue and boost his life expectancy, save him an annual bad weather loss of $1,000 and 30 working days. If brisk demand develops, Cockshutt will mass-produce the tractor, sell it for about...
...been reported, the bereaved youth is floating disconsolately downstream in a punt, while the evangelist who has come to restore his faith is clinging hopelessly to the branch of a willow tree and slowly sinking, like "a declining dogma," into the cold river water. The moral of this brisk little story is: Be sure your feet are on firm ground before you extend a helping hand...