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...humbler levels, too, British ingenuity still finds a way to defy or bypass the government. A woman who was determined to found the first diaper laundry and supply service in England (The Rockabye Nappy Service at Enfield, Middlesex) could not buy diapers in quantity in England because the mills were then subsidized to make other kinds of cheap piece goods ... So she went shopping in the guise of an expectant mother . . . When clerks asked for her "green card" (a mother's special ration book), she just looked more pregnant. Anyway, despite all the government could...
...from the Western Defense Ministers' conference at The Hague, came a sensational story: U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson had told British Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell (who is Strachey's boss and who formerly hewed pretty closely to the Communist Party line) that the U.S. intends to bypass Strachey with any really important military information that it may furnish Britain. Both Johnson and Shinwell denied the story: newsmen nevertheless were sure that it was at least partly true...
Others were working towards much the same goal by somewhat different paths: ex-marine Cord Meyer Jr., whose United World Federalists was designed to transform the U.N. itself into a world government; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, who urged the "faithful members" of U.N. to bypass the Soviet veto and go on about their pressing business; Ely Culbertson, high priest of contract bridge, who wanted an international land, sea and air force (drawn principally from small nations) to prevent aggression...
...Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings. Laughlin, who until then had hardly cracked a book on his own account, burst forthwith into creative bloom, decided to bypass the steel business and devote his life to writing...
Motorists should follow the parkway for 15.4 miles to a turnoff sign which reads "New Haven via Whitney Avenue." Cars going directly to the Bowl should continue on the parkway a speck further into the new bypass cutoff. A sign will confirm that this is the way to Yale Bowl, and this road--Route 34--runs directly past the Eli Stadium...