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Harold Macmillan valiantly tried to divert Britain's mind from sex and security. Displaying something like his old form in the House of Commons, he delivered an eloquent speech on prospects for disarmament and a summit conference that was received respect fully even by the Opposition. But Macmillan's eloquence could not diminish Tory distress over the three separate scandals that plagued his government...
...early 1920s the two states have been quarreling over the division of the waters. The dispute almost came to Wild West gunplay in 1934, when the Governor of Arizona sent state militiamen up the river on a scow to halt work on a dam that was being constructed to divert water to Los Angeles. Three times in the 1930s, Arizona unsuccessfully brought suit against California in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1952 Arizona sued again. The Supreme Court assigned Simon H. Rifkind, New York lawyer and former federal district judge, to assemble facts and shape a recommendation. Rifkind held...
...Game. In 1905, the year he graduated from Yale, William Champion read an article about an exhibit of African game boards at the Chicago Exposition of 1893 in which the author noted that Kalah "has served for ages to divert the inhabitants of nearly half the inhabited area of the globe." Fascinated by the failure of such a pandemic pastime to catch on in the U.S. and Europe, Champion began tracing its migrations and permutations...
...more of an impassioned listener than a player. "Why take music lessons," she reasoned, "when I could play anything I liked and it all came out so beautifully on that marvelous thing?" With four lavish homes, a private jet plane and a blue book full of friends to divert her, she still makes sure that she has time, interest and money enough left over for the symphony. The Music for Young America concerts are her proudest philanthropy. "I've had greater satisfaction out of this-," she says, "than anything since the feeding thing in the Depression...
...Tuesday's Faculty meeting, Reuben A. Brower, professor of English and Master of Adams House, said that the seminar program did not solve the important problem of improving the large lecture courses in the College. The seminar program might unduly divert Faculty resources from the General Education program, he cautioned...