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...Then Phillips won a lower court decision holding that Alleghany Corp. should be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, not the Interstate Commerce Commission. ICC had allowed Young to use the Alleghany Corp. in his fight for the Central in ways that the stricter SEC rules would have forbidden...
...equality for all women, divorces "issued without delay" at the request of either party (except the husbands of pregnant women), an end to discrimination against bastardy, and the protection of illegitimate children. Just to make everything absolutely clear, the law stated specifically in Article XIII: "It is strictly forbidden to drown newborn babies...
...Hawley, a medium-posh Connecticut prep school, the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts, and the masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat...
...Forbidden Fruit. Assuming the slightly gruff air of an indulgent uncle, he began by asking: "Can you hear me at the back? I don't want to waste my time." The audience laughed, and Philip went on. "Even if you were in a jet," said he. "I don't think you could get around the world in less than 48 hours. But this morning you are going to do it in 60 minutes, so you can imagine that it is going to be a bit of a rush." Then, after a glance at the mound of slides...
...believe the schools were rioting"), he whisked his young audience through 20 different lands, dropping offbeat bits of information on the way. The Seychelles, he explained, are "supposed to be the original Garden of Eden. They grow a double-ended coconut there that is supposed to be the original Forbidden Fruit. I'm not surprised. I tasted some. I think Adam was very ill-advised to taste...