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...Collins, a former U.S. Army chief of staff in mufti, echoed Ely's plea for conciliation. "Nothing can be done with the Binh Xuyen controlling the police," replied Diem. "Have you ever seen a Premier who did not control his own police?" The French, who have never been keen for Diem and have had long and profitable relationships with his enemies, spread the word in Paris and Saigon that U.S. support for Ngo Dinh Diem was beginning to wobble. The U.S. was in fact getting increasingly concerned over Diem's capacity to survive, but it still regarded...
...picture pages as the Homburg-hatted glamor boy. As Europe tilted towards war, his earnestness won him a title that was half-admiring, half-contemptuous: "This formidable young man who loves peace so terribly." Then one February day in 1938, Eden told Neville Chamberlain: "There has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms with others rather than that others should make terms with us . . . I do not believe . . . in appeasement...
...boils) and saw that the culture was "spoiled." A kind of claim-jumping mold had moved in and started its own colonies among the staph. A less observant scientist, or one more fussy about keeping a tidy laboratory, would have thrown out the adulterated growth. But Fleming's keen blue eye noticed a peculiarity: around each patch of mold growth was a bare ring where the staph had not been overgrown or crowded out but had nevertheless been killed. He deduced that the mold secreted a substance that killed this breed of staphylococci, at least...
...substandard, procedures are unnecessarily complex, and court administration is inefficient. In a brilliant series of lectures at the University of Virginia, to be published in book form later this year, Judge Vanderbilt says: "It is in the courts and not in the legislature that our citizens primarily feel the keen, cutting edge of the law. If they have respect for the work of the courts as it affects them, their respect for law will survive the shortcomings of every other branch of government; but if they lose their respect for the work of the courts, their respect...
Since the war, Jung has lived by the banks of Lake Zurich, treating a few patients and keeping a keen eye on the most difficult patient of all-the world at large. He has never stopped writing, revising his concepts, or enlarging the scope of his inquiries. He has explored medieval alchemy, not because he has any interest in its pseudo-chemical aspects, but because he considers it interesting psychologically: for the most part, he sees the alchemists as seekers after original religious experience outside the permissible limits of the medieval church...