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After telling his listeners to discard the "native attitude" that the Foreign Service is a "romance of glamour and purple intrigue," Maddox pointed out that every officer has to do a large amount of hard, and frequently dull, routine work...
Most interesting localism modifying the game that Wild Bill Hickok died over is politely translated from the colloquial as "Upset the adjacent player's plans." Seven cards are distributed to the participants, and they pass around three, pick up another three, and discard two. One expert abandoned this delightful game when he found the others passing his money roll around...
...surplus equipment for $300,000, and appropriate $1,500,000 for permanent veterans housing. The majority of these improvements were passed by a slim 5-4 vote in the nine-man Council. Any decision by Cambridge voters either to reelect the five Councilmen favoring Plan E or to discard managerial government should be made with regard to the merits or demerits of the system and not because of the truculent howls of frustrated politicians...
...last week Garbage Collector Noah Bowman reported one day's take: one unopened 24-lb. sack of flour, one whole cantaloupe, half a chicken, an unopened loaf of bread, an 8-lb. slab of bacon. Worst offenders: childless couples, who cut two pieces out of a pie and discard the rest. Worst periods: after holidays...
Until now the chief stumbling block, Great Britain has decided that her present method of safe-guarding Middle Eastern oil is too costly. She is prepared to discard her mandate if the UN or some other group assumes the burdens of immigration and partition. Belligerently sprawled across the last lap is the Arab League, spewing forth a strange variety of threats, the largest of which is a warning that all Arab economic and cultural ties with the West will be severed at the outset of partition. This threat rings hollow because the financial and industrial concessions granted by the West...