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...analyzing the training at Stead Air Force Base, many of the "tortures" listed are not tortures in the popular sense of the word; they are physical discomforts. Millions, that's right, millions of men have undergone the same sensations in the ordinary course of duty. The comparisons may not be exact, but I can personally guarantee a decided similarity. For example, many an infantryman has slept in a water-filled foxhole for "hours of darkness"; frozen, greasy hamburger or spaghetti in the same condition has been eaten (albeit, without much relish) by the same infantrymen; and if anyone thinks...
There are many reasons for the Democratic propagandists' concentration on Nixon. The most obvious is the political disadvantage of attacking a figure as popular as Eisenhower. Normal party antagonism has to find an outlet; Nixon has been it. Many liberal Democrats who changed their minds about the Alger Hiss case never stopped resenting the fact that Congressional Investigator Nixon arrived early at the conclusion they reached much later or that in the campaign Nixon most effectively pressed home the point that Adlai Stevenson was a character witness (by deposition) for Hiss at his first trial in 1952 and again...
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia's retired King and present popular idol, once dreamed of going to Hollywood to be a "Cambodian Charlie Chan." Last week, in Cambodia's capital city of Pnompenh (pop. 150,000), the young (32) leader produced, directed and starred in a far more ambitious production, a sort of oriental Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...
...Basil, who wears a D.F.C., A.F.C. and four D.S.O.s, is popular with flyers as a leader who would fly anything they could. Promoted to a big command early in World War II, he led his Blenheim bombers on one more mission, was shot down over France. He slipped away from the Germans three times, once killing three captors with a knife and the butt of a sentry's rifle, another time impersonating an Irish Republican Army man (and spouting Urdu when asked to show that he could speak Gaelic). He slept one night in an absent German general...
Love cannot be safely defined except as a "will to believe" in each other, but you're sure to leap at the most popular working definition among us intellectuals: "What is love? This is love!" When you've said that, since you're in the intertwined state wherein thoughts flow freely, she'll start wondering if it isn't just sex. Then you'll wonder if sex isn't enough (better not say it aloud...