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Hurley was too smart to let the ring-wise reporters see much more than the tag end of a rubdown. Matthews turned out to be a tough subject to interview. "Do you do any reading, Harry?" asked one polite Briton. "I never did find a story interesting enough to hold me down," answered Harry amiably. He headed for the door. "Aren't you going to put on a tie?" asked the newsman. Harry clutched at his collar. "I thought...
...Canadian mockup saucer, approved a more advanced design, and hope within three years to have a prototype that can take off straight up, hover in midair, and fly at mach 2.5 [nearly 2,000 m.p.h. at sea level]. Its designer: John C. M. Frost, 35, a tall, shy Briton with a passion for flowers and flying saucers...
...Deal days, a forthright British industrialist was introduced to a trustbusting U.S. Government lawyer. Said the Briton: "I've read your books and I know you to be an intelligent man. I know that you know that these antitrust suits of yours don't really change anything. Why do you bring them?" Said the American: "I know they don't change anything. But what you don't understand is that these suits are like medieval miracle plays-designed to educate the people, to tell them how capitalism really works...
...average Briton, a U.S. soldier off duty is often a pretty overwhelming sight. Lounging on a street corner in blue jeans and a garishly patterned leather windbreaker, the hairs on his chest peeping slyly out of the deep cleavage of an open-necked sport shirt, the out-of-uniform G.I. is an equally distressing sight to more soldierly U.S. noncoms...
...visitor to Greenville, Miss., Novelist Alan Paton, whose Cry, the Beloved Country was an eloquent condemnation of South Africa's white-supremacy notions, eyed Southern U.S. race relations. Said Briton Paton: "In Mississippi I find a determination to provide equal but separate facilities [for whites and Negroes]. The time has come when the people of the South are willing to pay more for their prejudices than before...