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...bond traders were still mystified as to just how free the bond market would be under the new policy. Last week's action indicated that FRB will support the market at least partially whenever bonds drift very far below par.' And those Government seers who had predicted dire things if FRB stopped supporting U.S. bonds above par, had been proved wrong...
...Strangways strode angrily across St. James's into White's and, when Bevan and Sir John left the club shortly after, followed them outside. Fox-Strangways' family motto is Faire sans dire-deeds without words. Silently, he landed a kick on Bevan's broad backside. The minister stumbled down the last half-dozen steps, was hurried into his car by Sir John. The Air Marshal declared later that Bevan behaved with "great restraint and dignity...
Roomy Overcoat. In the first few days of the new censorship, A.P.'s Brines estimated, the restrictions had cut his file from Korea by 25% and slowed up stories as much as an hour, but otherwise there hadn't been any dire consequences. I.N.S.'s Tokyo Chief Howard Handleman preferred letting the censors worry about security instead of following the old "honor" system, which made correspondents responsible for military security. Said he: "It's a lot better than being awakened at 4 some morning to learn that somebody has broken a story that we have been...
...internationalists" warned of the dire consequences of losing of and the "isolationists" of the dire consequences of trying to save allies. Nobody held out any happier hope than averting the worst. There seemed to be no architects of foreign policy around - just building inspectors...
...find these distinctions singularly absent. It's stimulating from a sanguinary point of view to note that we are considered fitting infantry-bait, and when we're called we'll all assume a suitably docile role; but the present lack of consistency, scholastic ranking-wise does deserve review. The dire need for armed manpower does not necessitate jettisoning that which we have been brought up to believe is a basic fact. A. T. Sawyer...