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...have always been called Rip by most of my male friends, Tony by most of my female friends, and Dodo (an extinct bird) by my grandchildren. Both my son Rip's and my forename is really Elmore. Rip is a nickname a Torn would receive, as surely as Dusty would be attached to the surname of Rhodes...
...internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence. But last week events made sharply obvious what had been apparent for a long time: Panch Shila's use as the guiding force in India's China policy is, as the Indian Express put it, "dead as the dodo." Not dead but severely damaged was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's claim to a special neutralist magic in his dealings with Communism...
...white men whose feelings of guilt, fear or misplaced idealism drive them to fight against their own breed." The Dallas News, while sympathizing with the extremist view, wistfully acknowledged that white domination was gone with the winds of change: "That idea may not be as dead as the dodo-South Africa proves it is not-but it is as little respected nowadays as the divine right of kings...
...Saint Joan. It brought us Emlyn Williams and Marcel Marceau in 1957, two productions by the Theatre National Populaire in 1958, the Vieux-Colombier company and Gielgud's Ages of Man early this year, and is offering three shows this summer. Extinct? No; you, Mr. Capp, are the dodo...
...From World War II until 1953, our country's long-range ballistic missile program was as dead as the proverbial dodo. Meanwhile, the Soviets were going full speed ahead. In those eight critical postwar years, our government spent only $3.5 million on these weapons. That, my friends, averages out to about $437,000 a year. In only two years of the same period the previous Administration spent $50 million for peanuts. That's 60 times more for peanuts than for long-range missiles...