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...herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills...
Columnist-turned-Author Ruark (Horn of the Hunter, Grenadine Etching) is not likely to mind. Months before his bloody, big novel of Kenya's Mau Mau rising was due in bookstores. Hollywood paid a reported...
...jumping-off place for an attack on Formosa," Low said. "The U.S. should be given moral support . . . because of the importance of Formosa for the defense of the free people of southeastern Asia and even of America." As the other M.P.s spoke, Mike Pearson alternately twirled his horn-rimmed glasses and sprawled in his seat with hands in his pockets. He made no immediate reply to his critics. For the time being, at least, he evidently intended to stand by his rule-of-thumb for Canadian action. The rule: yes, if it is a big war; no-or maybe...
...efficacy of herb medicines "proved by several thousand years' clinical experience." Some, of course, may actually be beneficial: Western doctors do not forget that they have derived modern wonders such as quinine and reserpine from primitive cures. But the vast majority are as useless as ground-up rhinoceros horn to cure impotence. Still, the peasants are being ordered to plant more medicinal herbs, and Government agencies are buying them and keeping prices down. Government chemists are trying to extract pills and concentrates...
...Horn's criticism, however, centered around Griswold, whom he quoted as saying that "Yale is not interested in beetle-browed, highly specialized intellectuals, but in well rounded persons." Horn said that Griswold's opinion was anti-intellectual...