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...path when newspapers publicized the fact that he was charging $1 for parking. That left only one access road through the jointly owned property of two avowed anti-nudists, and last week this too was closed with an armed guard to bar the way. But nothing seemed to daunt the enthusiastic nudists, who continued arriving wave on wave. Some made their way around the southern promontory at low tide; others formed human chains down the dangerous cliffside paths. All kept their sneakers on, at least until they hit the beach...
...afford bargain-basement cops any more," says Oregon's Multnomah County (Portland) Sheriff Donald Clark. But bargain-basement cops are what many cities get as they compete for manpower with widely varying standards of pay, training and competence. Moreover, the country's swiftly changing laws daunt even bright cops, who now have to cope with Supreme Court decisions that sometimes baffle even learned justices...
Cynthia's first big assignment was enough to daunt the wiliest old pro: her orders were to get hold of the Italian naval code book. Within a few weeks of first meeting the shapely Betty Pack, Italy's naval attache, Admiral Alberto Lais, was so scuppered by her that he surrendered the code with hardly a murmur. Italian apologists maintain that Lais, who died in 1951, was actually so ungallant as to give his mistress a fake cipher book. Undeniably, however, British Intelligence thereafter proved uncannily adept at forestalling Italian fleet movements, notably in the March...
Covell's birth pangs hardly daunt President Burns, who now plans two more colleges-one to be supported by Episcopalians, the other by Presbyterians. "Within 15 years, I see 15 cluster colleges with 5,500 to 6,000 students," he says. Unless football creeps back, Pacific may become one of the nation's most interesting campuses...
...given the same assignments and expected to cover the same ground at the same pace. Good teachers know how unrealistic this is. In mental development, children of the same age may be as much as four years apart. To treat them all alike is to bore the bright or daunt the dull without doing enough for the average either...