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...said that we must avoid a panic in this country over the prospect of hydrogen warfare, and he is right. But here again there is a large gap between knowledge and panic; Americans have in the past absorbed defense education without falling into blinding fear. The administration has perhaps dwelt too long on the fable of the boy who cried wolf without reason and needlessly alarmed his neighbors. It would be well to consider also the boy who saw the wolf but neglected to cry out; he was devoured quickly and silently...
...margin. But Gallup "allocated" the undecideds 2-to-1 and 3-to-1 for the Democrats. That kind of pattern this time, he told his readers, would take Eisenhower and Stevenson into 50-50 country. Some of Gallup's other calculations brought Stevenson out ahead. Pollster Elmo Roper dwelt on "basic conflicts" in voters' minds, refused to indicate how the conflicts would be decided...
...more self-confident grads even delivered extra talks on an impromptu basis. The first dwelt on the accomplishments of an 86 year old acquaintance who a) hasn't paid his club dues in 36 years, b) has to be "dragged" to religious meetings, c) still receives plenty of promiscuous offers, d) spends his time spooning in front of his TV set, and e) always smiles. This was why "life begins at forty" according to our speaker...
Kangaroo could have been another King Solomon's Mines. It could have dwelt at length upon the mysterious denizens of Australia--aborigines, koala bears, kangaroos, and pit vipers. But it didn't. After spending ten minutes or so exhibiting savages, lizards, and bounding wallabies, Kangaroo turned out to be nothing but a displaced Western. The kangaroos had about as much to do with the proceedings as the man who tears your ticket in half at the door...
Like her mother, Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Rowland Green Wilks was a lonely, frugal recluse. She dwelt alone in a Manhattan apartment, wore cheap, drab clothing, doted on newspaper comic strips. After her death a year ago at 80, officials found her will stuffed in a tin cabinet along with four cakes of soap. It cut off her closest relative, a cousin, with $5,000 (later raised to $140,000 after court action), divided most of the fortune among 63 charities and educational institutions...