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Ernest Bevin, the bull elephant of British labor, last week sat bulkily silent, beadily watchful, in the back row at a caucus of Parliament's Laborite members. The proposal: to expel from the Party his homonym-pink, grizzled Welshman Aneurin Bevan. The crime: Laborite Be-van's revolt...
Psychopathic Personality? The de fense may also try to prove that Lonergan is a psychopathic personality - and hence perhaps even legally insane. One Manhattan psychiatrist claims that this is shown by Lonergan's "financial promiscuity, sexual promiscuity, emotional shallowness." Typical example of his emotional shallowness : after his wife'...
"The Japs counterattacked strongly two days and a night, but the Chinese beat them all off. When the Japs started to pull out the Chinese crawled through thick elephant grass within a few feet of the road and cut down the retreating column by scores. . . .
In 1921 Armand Hammer went to Russia and, realizing that there is almost nothing a bureaucracy needs so much as pencils, began to manufacture them for the newly established Soviet Government. He made such good pencils that grateful Bolsheviks sent him back to the U.S. to unload their greatest white...
Originally designed (by Boeing) as a combat plane, Grandpappy long since has been only a packhorse. His insigne is an overloaded elephant. These days he thunders around the Caribbean carrying great quantities of cargo - as much as 15 tons pay load per trip. Flying from the Canal Zone to Trinidad...