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...strange lexicon of Communist crimes, Moscow last week added a new one with a classic heritage: Pythagorism. The original culprit: Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher-mathematician (circa 582-507 B.C.) known to schoolboys as the geometric genius who first pinned down the proposition that the square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides...
...Munawarr Jehan Begum, senior wife of the exiled Nawab of Junagadh, was being washed and dressed by three timorous maids in her Karachi mansion one Sunday morning last year. Suddenly Her Highness' jowls began to quiver. Someone, she screamed, had usurped the royal privy. The culprit proved to be 13-year-old Bano, a scared little peasant-born maid...
Major-league baseball was confronted with one of its worst scandals since the Black Sox series of 1919: the owner of one of the nation's most famous baseball clubs was heading for a prison cell. The culprit was a trim, glib little St. Louis lawyer turned businessman (real estate) named Fred M. Saigh, who parlayed $60,800 in borrowed cash into a $4,000,000 baseball empire...
...said the box has been "doctored up," and that police have been detailed to watch it at all times. Asked if he had any information about the culprit, Collins said "it was probably some screwball...
Actually, the chief culprit is not success but inflation. In the last ten years, building costs have jumped 100-200%, and the cost of operating a campus has just about tripled. In 1950, U.S. campuses were getting $572 in income per student, only $345 in 1940. But in terms of 1940 dollars, this really meant a drop of $20. Only some public universities and junior colleges have managed to hold their...