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...holiday spirit apparently did not impress Burma's President Ne Win, 64. Disturbed by noise from the Inya Lake Hotel across from his home in Rangoon, the socialist leader rounded up a trio of military aides armed with submachine guns and barged in on 800 revelers. While stunned guests watched, he then bashed in the band's drums, pushed over some amplifiers and slapped an army officer. Diplomats who were there reported that the Burmese partygoers, who obviously knew a Ne Win situation when they saw it, quickly made for the exits...
Physicians have long used medical jargon to impress gullible laymen. As far back as the 13th century, the medieval physician Arnold of Villanova urged colleagues to seek refuge behind impressive-sounding language when they could not explain a patient's ailment. "Say that he has an obstruction of the liver," Arnold wrote, "and particularly use the word obstruction because [patients] do not understand what it means." Such deceptions may still occasionally be practiced on patients, but this does not account for the impenetrable prose in contemporary medical journals, which are read mostly by doctors...
...first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex., had been a success, enabling him to tell the Russians, as Churchill put it, "just where they got on and off." Indeed, some revisionist historians have insisted that U.S. officials used the bomb against Japan primarily-if not solely-to impress their military might upon Russia. But Sherwin disputes this interpretation, despite his conviction that both Roosevelt and Truman intended to wage atomic diplomacy against the Soviets. He argues that all policymakers connected with the Manhattan Project assumed from its inception that the Bomb would be used...
...fact that he's aware of his own ludicrousness doesn't prevent Allan from doing stupid, inappropriate things. In trying to impress a blind date, he anoints himself profusely with Mennen Spray Deodorant, Lavoris, Johnson and Johnson Baby Powder, Canoe and Binaca--leaves Thelonius Monk and Bartok albums strewn "carelessly" about and waxes philosophically ("Pain...it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.") He knows what he's doing, and yet somehow can't restrain himself...
Harvard will be out there this evening to prove that it is a better team than the slim 5-4 victory over Northeastern and the upsetting 4-3 loss to Penn indicates. B.U. will attempt to continue to impress its admirers, who are already awed by a record of three victories over though squads, Providence (5-3), UNH (6-5) and Dartmouth...