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...seats with a foot of water, but this problem did not discourage the hardier spectators. They just took off their shoes, waded in, and got their money's worth. By the afternoon the tide had ebbed, leaving only a sea of squishy mud in the choicest seats...
Ever since the first medicine men started to live high off the boar by ordering their patients to bring them the choicest cuts, ailing mankind has been worrying about how to pay the doctor. In the U.S. recently, attention has been concentrated on two rival methods (TIME, Feb. 20, 1950): compulsory national health insurance (favored by President Truman and Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing, "socialized medicine," to its opponents) and the present system of private payment to the doctor for each separate service he gives, with a limited exception for prepayment through voluntary insurance (favored by the A.M.A...
...after spending half his life in China, Father Buch saw the institutions he helped found taken over one by one by China's Communists. At last his own superiors realized that there was no point in his staying on longer. Father Buch packed up 150 of his choicest butterflies and started the long journey home...
Even so, there will still be some rather choice amenities for the conquerors. The U.S. Army intends to hang on to Bavaria's two best ski resorts - Garmisch and Berchtesgaden-which it seized for furlough centers. Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit...
Author Haraszti has culled Adams' choicest comments and neatly arranged them in the form of dialogues. In this play of intellects, Adams clashed most frequently with the French philosophers, e.g., Rousseau, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Condorcet and their disciples. Adams reveals himself as one of the greatest conservatives who ever helped to make a revolution. Sample dialogue between Adams and Mary Wollstonecraft, mother-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an ardent feminist, and author of an urgent work entitled Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution...