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Ulen is a little more conservative. He has to be. His squads are neither strong enough nor deep enough to undergo such a grind. Instead, he employs the patient and sympathetic approach of the fine teacher in any field...
...long one, the 440-yard grind, is not in such good shape. Doug Kinney is a steadily improving swimmer, and should win well over half of his races this year. But with Bob Tolf injured, Kinney has little support. He also swims the 220 behind Berke; he should be over a mile ahead of his nearest competitor in total yardage by the end of the year...
...rocks from the sea, the Viet Minhs occasionally raid the bishop's territory. But so far there has been no big attack. Bui Chu and Phat Diem still manage to maintain their independent existence. At the back of Monsignor Le Huu Tu's episcopal palace, the lathes grind out crude grenades, mortars and one Rube Goldberg contraption, proudly described by one of the priests as "our flying bomb...
...withone difference: he would be paid, not a dollar a year, but nothing. As a Senator, heading his famed war investigating committee, Harry Truman in 1942 had declared forthrightly: "No man can honestly serve two masters . . . The committee is opposed to taking free services from people with axes to grind . . ." Now necessity had changed his mind. He announced that henceforth the Government may employ persons of "outstanding experience and ability, without compensation," allowing them to keep drawing salaries from private sources while working for the Government...
...Better Birth? Another Kalimpong Buddhist keeps busy driving an obstinate goat around a pile of prayer stones, hoping to assure the ungrateful animal a better birth-perhaps even human-in its next incarnation. The daily grind for U.S. Scholar Joseph Rock, who was chased out of China by the Reds and settled in Kalimpong, consists of work on a new system of spelling Tibet's tongue-twisting place names. Austrian Baron Rene Nebesky, who helps Rock, is boning up on Tibetan demonology...