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...Black Medical Research Building. It is named after the alumnus ('20) whose cool $5,000,000 gift in 1960 was the biggest ever received by Columbia from a living man. On hand was William Black himself, a self-styled "poor kid from Brooklyn," who parlayed a Times Square nut stand into the $33.7 million-a-year Chock Full O'Nuts Corp. At such ceremonies, the honored donor's speech is expected to contain a little modest reminiscence and some high-minded platitudes. What Black delivered instead was a brief, jarring indictment of "unessential" philanthropies. In two minutes...
...radio switches. The type and technique matched those of recent bombs left outside two Los Angeles buildings. One exploded at the headquarters for the California Communist Party. A dud was discovered at the office of the United Nations Association. Said Police Inspector Ed Walker: "It could be a nut. Or somebody with a real cause...
...elevators again. You and a psychiatrist step inside, and press buttons. You wait, and look at each other suspiciously. Suddenly the psych screams "these goddam things" and starts jumping up and down. You wonder if he is some kind of nut. Breathing heavily, he explains that the only way to get upstairs is by jumping...
...milk: "There is no finer investment for any community to make than putting milk into babies." France's Premier (1954-55) Pierre Mendès-France urged his countrymen to give up wine in favor of milk; most Frenchmen considered Lactophile Mendès-France some sort of nut, and he did not last long as Premier. Even more recently, the British National Milk Publicity Council, backed by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, achieved a dramatic upsurge in the national milk intake by a campaign that featured a catchy slogan (DRINKA PINTA MILKA DAY) and pictures of shapely milkmaids...
...drama of destalinization moved into the theater last week. A new Moscow play pitted a Stalin-trained secret police heavy ("Give me this Leontyev, and in two weeks he will crack like a nut") against a clean-cut hero cop who ringingly denounces the Stalinists: "They are not tormented by their conscience. They never...