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Stevenson has none of the strident partisanship, the rigid thinking, or the banality toward maladministration shown by the current president, nor is he a chronic addict of the Big Oversimplification. His career as well as his speeches have injected into politics a zeal for intellectual exertion and a faith in the electorate's judgement which, no matter how justified or successful, has made this campaign the most constructive in years...
...interruption was as welcome as a short snort at sundown. All day the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg last week, had been debating Europe's chronic dollar deficit, and at length Britain's Scottish-born Robert Boothby took the floor: "We can expand, I think, the export of certain specialties to the U.S. . . In this respect my own country is rather fortunate. In Scotland we manufacture the highest quality tweeds and we make the highest quality whisky, the best whisky in the world...
...another metaphysical revolution. He joined the Communist Party. He had, so he thought, good reason. The Nazis were coming to power in Germany, and to Koestler it seemed that only the Communists could hold out against them. More generally, the party offered him a release for his "state of Chronic Indignation" at "a polluted society." Even so, a run of irrelevant bad luck at that time had some other "field that awaits the plow of the Lord...
...Like all gifted men, Colonel* Pearson has a few failings . . . President Roosevelt [called him] a 'chronic liar.' I can't go quite that far. Colonel Pearson sometimes tells the truth . . . It may not be intentional, but it's there . . . I estimate that Baron Munchausen's contemporary counterpart has told no less than two dozen lies about me within the past two years. Assuming I have received only my pro rata share of Baron Pearson's prevarications, this data may be projected to the conclusion that this modern Munchausen has concocted 24 falsehoods about every...
...Chronic high blood pressure is not necessarily a bar to long life. Two Boston doctors who have followed the cases of 100 patients for as long as 34 years report 71 still living, and only five seriously handicapped. Early high-blood-pressure readings are often misleading, they say, and physicians should be careful not to make their patients "blood-pressure neurotics" by overdoctoring them...