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...first major piece of legislation through the House of Commons: a bill to make the vast socialized-medicine program created by Labor pay more of its own way. To get the bill passed, the Tories had to resort to the unpopular "guillotine" to limit debate (TIME, May 5) and employ the budget-wise arguments of a pretty red-haired M.P., Miss Patricia Hornsby-Smith...
...Hanley started with a reference to the anecdote that Wright had delivered. He looked uneasy when there was no response, but then his face brightened: "I'm really not the president of a steel corporation, but an assistant to Charles Sawyer in the employ of the United States Government." A short interval of unrestrained laughter seemed to throw him back into high gear...
...skill and experience, tiny, deft-fingered Police Inspector Shimpachi Utsugi recalls his triumphs with nostalgic respect for his quarry. "In the old days," says Utsugi of the time when he first joined the imperial police force, "Japan's pickpockets were proud professional men who would never stoop to employ such tactics as cutting garments with a knife." They plied their trade with stealth, skill and subtlety, and to combat them, the young detective matched skill with skill and stealth with stealth. He soon became as good a pickpocket as the pickpockets. On busy days, like those in the annual...
...large company recently offered to hire Yale's entire crop of graduate electrical engineers-sight unseen. Another promised the University of Santa Clara to employ even those engineering students who flunk their finals. Men about to be drafted are being signed to promissory contracts for the future. "It's like a fraternity rush," said the University of California's Associate Dean Everett Howe last week. "It's bad for the boys; it hurts their work and inflates their egos...
Women with Talons. The most striking feature of these stories, which are typical of most of the others in the book, is that they all seem to have been written by the same author. Except when they are wound up in a woolly snarl of technological jargon, they all employ one voice-that of the '203 and '303 tough guy, bounded on the rough side by "Huh," and on the smooth by slick patter ("Her voice was like _ a cello bowed up near the bridge"). All the objects of numbed horror are interchangeable, whether they are masked women...