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...just the same old nonsense-we've heard it all before," snapped one of Mossadeq's aides. The Iranian reaction to rumors of possible British military intervention in Iran was instant and hectic. The National Front newspaper Shahed screamed: "[Neither] oil-eating British politicians [nor] any power or force in the whole world would be able to declare the oil nationalization law null and void without starting World War III . . . For every Iranian the question of oil is a religious and national matter . . . To reach the holy goal a holy war may be needed...
Unlearn & Relearn. In his wise and witty book (written in collaboration with Lowell S. Hawley, onetime newspaperman), Dr. Fisher describes his postgraduate days in Vienna as "a turbulent, hectic period-where the task each morning was to forget three-fourths of what had been learned the day before and had subsequently been disproved; and where the task each night was to remember half of what had been purposely forgotten in the morning because the theories which disproved these things had been themselves disproved...
...this same period, during the First Revolution, that Sorokin first went to jail; five prison terms were yet to come in the 18 hectic years which followed. Of his first sentence, Sorokin comments, "The warden gave me the use of his office, and it turned out to be the safest place to keep revolutionary literature...
Snow in July. These copies reached subscribers ahead of the last three boat-shipped issues. Response was tremendous, the heartening kind that kept us at the job during the hectic war years to follow. High on the new list of readers was Manuel Bianchi, a Chilean who had taken the first Air Express subscription ever sold. Now Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and one of London's senior diplomats, Bianchi recently looked back over the decade of cover-to-cover reading and called TIME'S Latin American Edition "a major instrument for understanding." Added...
Despite his own hectic undergraduate life, Griswold thinks today's Yale student overemphasizes extra-curricular activities, especially because he generally enters them to prove he's a big shot. "We need to learn to do things for their own sake," Griswold says. He thinks that perhaps student conferences between Harvard and Yale men might be useful to eliminate the "10 to 25 percent margin" between the Harvard student's apathy toward extra-curricular and college life and the Yale man's overzealousness...