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...Harvard Crimson's Confidential Guide to undergraduate courses. "Vague platitudes on assorted cosmic questions," complains one of his students, "are apparently received through the office of divine revelation." Is he arrogant? "Oh, yes, of course," says his sister Catherine. "But his arrogance is always with tongue in cheek. It's part of his charm. He is also a kindly man, which isn't often mentioned...
...self-respecting U.S. women buy French clothes and cosmetics for millions of dollars, and why do U.S. tourists go in masses to France leaving millions in U.S. currency so that it can be used to emasculate the U.S. economy? Only "paper tigers" or masochists offer the other cheek after one has already been bitten several times. Sometimes even ingrate, arrogant old men suffering from a superiority complex can be taught a lesson in the elementary and basic laws of give and take...
...itself some 30° fore and aft and 10° sideways-useful for settling gently on an underwater slope. Deep Quest's two manipulator arms can each grasp as much as 500 Ibs. of material at a time off the ocean floor and tuck it into two squirrel-cheek spaces on either side of the craft...
Those were the most serious injuries in the meet. In addition, Kopecki's match was stopped several times to stanch his bleeding nose (and he had entered the match with a hunk of padding over some stiches on his right cheek...
...takes about 20 pages to realize that Report from Iron Mountain is a skillful hoax. Who wrote it? Likely candidates were canvassed. Richard Goodwin and Economist Kenneth E. Boulding both denied authorship. An even likelier candidate, John Kenneth Galbraith, hedged. Meanwhile, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek review of Iron Mountain for Book World under a pseudonym, as is his wont...