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...sure, bare-kneed bagpipers would be useless skirling through the booby-trapped jungles of Viet Nam. They would be hopelessly muffled by the thunder of an 1CBM. Yet the strident music that has emboldened soldiers for centuries has powerful defenders. A number of influential Congressmen, including House Armed Services Committee Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, whose mother was of the fabled piper family of McCay, and Minnesota Republican Clark MacGregor, remember their Scottish blood and are making Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's life miserable with their protests. His aides concede that the dispute is becoming one of the most nettlesome...
...political futility of the action makes even more repulsive the pathological brutality with which it was carried out. In clearing the building, the occupiers repeatedly struck men who were leaving without protest. Most of these were struck from behind without warning and one man was kneed in the groin. then kicked and beaten as he lay immobile on the floor...
...bank of computers are advised to wear a lot of the cheapest perfume they can find." Computers operate effectively only in "clean" air, Matusow explains, and are highly sensitive to environmental changes. Heavy dollops of perfume could paralyze a computer as effectively as they do those of a weak-kneed human office worker...
...Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, who, one member of the class of '44 said, "only mouthed a lot of words." Opinions of the Faculty were generally very low. One class member said he thought the Faculty should be abolished. Most seemed to feel that the Faculty had been weak-kneed in dealing with the University Hall takeover and should have taken a stronger stand...
...Mother and Father refuse to admit that anything has really changed. Zenobia, too, is the only one who mentions the existence of It-a silent creature, swathed in slings and bandages, who skulks along the floor, in corners and under tables, and is intermittently kicked, whipped, stabbed, slapped and kneed in the groin by both husband and wife, without provocation or comment...