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...fierce; Berwick and an assistant have been badly pecked. Berwick has taught the gulls to fly at an actor's head, clobber him with a wing, and circle back for another pass (or a retake). But his favorite is a crow named Nosey, which he has trained to fetch his car keys, bring the morning paper, even put a cigarette in his mouth and light it for him. Berwick can start Nosey half a block away from the camera and get him to fly right into the lens...
...proof that not all Harvardmen fetch up on the New Frontier. Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall ('14) assembled at a Capitol lunch eleven fellow alumni who are all Republican members of Congress. Flaunting their Cambridge-induced independence of mind by wearing their three-button suits, the old boys did not hesitate to bite the hand that had fed them knowledge. "A Harvard professor." proclaimed Ohio's Representative John Ashbrook ('52), "is an egghead who thinks the American eagle needs two left wings." The consensus was best expressed by New York's Senator Kenneth Keating (LL.B...
...controversial rise in postal rates (which could be gobbled up by postal wage rises ). The Administration also assumes that there will be no extraordinary and unexpected defense spending-the very factor that caused the 1962 deficit. Most members of Congress feel that budget expenditures in 1963 will fetch up closer to $95 billion, with revenues running a few billion behind...
Modern ambassadors administer vast arsenals of peaceful weapons: food, loans, technical assistance-and in crisis, their advice to the government back home can even fetch battleships and airplanes. But words and opportunities remain the basic armament of diplomacy. In an age when heads of state can conveniently meet face to face, when foreign ministers crisscross the globe like soldier ants, when lies as well as truth travel with the speed of thought, it is still the ambassadors in every world capital who must explain their governments' policies to friends and foes, restrain the hasty, encourage the weak...
Presumably to show that it meant business, the military then ordered all leading politicians to straighten matters out expeditiously at a meeting in the presidential palace in Ankara; when Peasant-and-Nation Party Leader Osman Bolukbasi failed to show up, an armed party was sent to fetch...