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...young may also pick up a few ideas from such old-fashioned sources as fairy tales (in Hansel & Gretel, the witch is oven-crisped by a couple of kids), myths (Perseus decapitates a lady who stands in his way), Bible stories (little David gives Goliath a hole in the head...
...Littauer. But between these blasts he made careful and professorial defenses of the position of the United States. In the address, he kept to a general support of the Truman Doctrine. Our "imperialism" always has been pretty shoddy, he said, meaning that it has been half-hearted, naive, and oven sort of generous. He then took the occasion to compare our expansion and that of the Soviets--the Truman and Stalin Doctrines--and concluded that the men who created what he termed "the Russian ice age" must be mystified at our decadent lack of ruthlessness...
...green painted office, the pretty brunette manager of the University bakery plans Operation Oven, which provides the breads and cakes for more than 6000 hungry Harvard months...
...Guest Star: "... A temperamental Hollywood glamor girl. . . . Her agent demands that the guest star's last three pictures, Zombie in the Oven, Chuck Wagon Clarisse, and She Couldn't Say Maybe, be mentioned in the dialogue...
...reactor." The active substance is plutonium, which wrecked Nagasaki. This time it is under exact control. In operation since last November, the tame bomb can be throttled down until "the heat produced in the core of the reactor is no greater than that given off by a kitchen oven...