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...demanded cessation of tax inspections and forgiveness of tax violators, sent an ultimatum to Premier Edgar Faure himself. While Poujade watched scornfully from the visitors' gallery, the Premier and Deputies of France caved in, gave Poujade not all but most of his demands. When Poujade took off his coat preparatory to donning a sweater and leaving, the Assembly president was so nervous that he pushed the riot-call button, which summons the Republican Guard on the run and locks all the Assembly doors. Today Poujade has only to take his coat off and look around for the Garde...
...from vivid. He got a $50-a-month job with the Potomac Electric Power Co., thus managed to support himself while attending night classes at the Georgetown University Law School. It was not easy. Hall often wore old clothes ("I invented the idea of wearing pants and coat that didn't match"), worked out a complicated route to school so he would not have to spend more than a nickel streetcar fare. After three years, at 19, Hall got his law degree...
...stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator had he not believed passionately that "all education is a fraud"; he is always uttering loud groans and hurrying "to the coat cupboard, where he kept a medicine bottle of whisky." And there is Mr. Mackee, a familiar figure in most people's childhood. "We despised him entirely and completely for . . . his kindness and good nature . . . Our great triumph [was] when we nearly drowned him." Says Gary: "We were little anti-Christs...
...more versed in the social graces, since he has more free time in which to practice them. As one student puts it, "I think of Harvard men as wearing clothes rather than holes with clothes around them as we do here." He explained that no one wears a coat or tie at M.I.T. because there are few girls to impress and they would only get ruined in lab. Besides, they are not required...
Jones urged educators to stop trying to "sugar coat" the humanities as the humane person would not be the product of a "milk and water version of the subject...