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...sense, he is running away from his material-and to as ghostly a destination. What begins as sharp domestic drama drifts into the sort of mild fantasy that seems, at its worst, mere filler. Once his old lady runs away, Playwright Foote can do nothing more than improvise, temporize, insert those small episodes in bus stations and buses that pay off as scenes but bankrupt the play as a whole. The play, furthermore, misses real poignancy from going too plainly in search of it; something of a human being at the outset, Mrs. Watts is nothing, at the end, except...
When Carter Davidson, president of Union College attempted to insert a sentence lauding the committee's work into the draft of a resolution, a storm of opposition developed, with Mather expressing vigorous criticism...
Navy Outcry. When Wilson got home, he discovered that the chips were flying in the corridors and outer-ring offices of the Pentagon. One of his principal organizational recommendations-which he persuaded the Rockefeller committee to insert in the Defense Department reorganization plan-involved straightening out lines of authority in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. To date, the Joint Chiefs have operated like a loose federation, capable of interservice horse-trading, but seldom of clear-cut decision. Wilson bought the plea of retiring JCS Chairman Omar Bradley for additional authority for the chairman. This touched off a Navy outcry...
...Within minutes, his thyroid and parathyroids were removed, with about an inch of each of the four main blood vessels attached. The operating room was got ready for Irma Miller, and, as soon as she arrived for an injection, she was whisked to the table. The surgeons decided to insert the baby's thyroid in her groin (instead of its usual place in the neck), because the blood vessels are the right size and the site is protected from accidental pressure. They cut four of her blood vessels, and stitched the ends to the stubs of the gland...
...bill to insert the words "under God" in the U.S. pledge of allegiance to the flag was introduced in the House of Representatives last week by Democratic Congressman Louis C. Rabaut of Michigan. Congressman Rabaut's amended pledge would read: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." "Our country was born under God," said Rabaut, "and only [under God] will it live as a citadel of freedom...