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This is the popular image--Harvard men as snobs, outwardly cynical and blase and self-assured (that's the part Harvard taught them) and inwardly ambitious (that's the part they came with). People have been talking about Harvard snobs for at lest two hundred years and for two hundred years it's been at least partly true. It will be strange, because while at first it will seem more foreign than anything in the world, after a couple years you'll notice--on a trip home, maybe--that without even wanting to you've picked up some...
...aging mobster (now 73) never broke his silence. But last week the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered him freed. The justices concluded that there was "no substantial likelihood" that Catena would ever cooperate with the commission; therefore, he must be released because further imprisonment would amount to unjustified punishment. Lest other Mafiosi rejoice too much, the court limited its decision to his case alone. As a result, three other recalcitrant witnesses remain in the Clinton Reformatory, and the commission can continue to coerce silent mobsters with threats of imprisonment. To get out of jail without talking, they will have...
...them to the point of failure. A minor quake-contained between the locked areas-should result, relieving the dangerous stresses in the immediate vicinity. By repeating the procedure, the scientists could eventually relieve strains over a wide area. Other scientists feel that such experiments should be undertaken with caution, lest they trigger a large quake. Raleigh is more hopeful. In theory, he says, relatively continuous movement over the entire length of the San Andreas Fault could be maintained-and major earthquakes prevented-with a system of some 500 three-mile-deep holes evenly spaced along the fault. Estimated cost...
...much more can be said, lest the author's outrageous unlikelihoods become unglued. The dust jacket offers useful clues: a volcano erupting; a young woman, evidently Clara, holding a pistol and a rose; a young man, evidently Niles, holding a false face; and a rather sinister older woman. Readers who follow these tantalizations to the end will be richly rewarded-with everything save the real name of the author...
...eyes were black and fierce below the camouflage of little-girl bangs. They seemed curiously separate-not quite a matching pair. By the age of 13 she had reached a height of 5 ft. 8½ in., and lest the home-town folks of Columbus, Ga., think she was one of them, Lula Carson (as she was baptized) wore knee socks and tennis shoes while the other Southern teenie-belles were wearing heels. The opening lines of Carson McCullers' most famous work, The Member of the Wedding, can be read as her epitaph: "She belonged to no club...