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...Miscalculation." Last week, in just such an exercise of military futility, some 200 British ground troops (infantrymen of the Cameronians and the 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars) were not only in action in Oman, but had been forced into a brief but prudent retreat. Casualties among British regular forces: six cases of heat prostration...
...Prudent Declaration. As for Sukarno, a kind and friendly man with pretensions to political learning, he was off on a baby-kissing tour of South Borneo, cracking jokes that had audiences slapping their hips with glee, and making pleas for national unity-the kind of unity, he said, he had found in Red China. After hearing the results of the Communist victory in Java, he thought it prudent to declare: "I am no Communist. I cannot become a Communist...
...TIME's sources were the two biographies of Kemal Ataturk in English which are criticized by Turks as sensational. Turkish scholarship, now so prudent about its national hero, has not yet soundly encompassed the full dimensions of Ataturk's lively character and opinions...
...Like any prudent Congressman quick to heed even the silliest requests from a constituent, Brooklyn Democrat John J. Rooney, 53, asked the Library of Congress to ransack its stacks and files for the words to an oldtime ditty entitled The Lobster Is the Wise Guy, After AIL The library, one of the world's great literary storehouses, was embarrassed to reply that it could not locate Rooney's Lobster among its Crustacea volumes or anywhere else. At hearings on the library's budget, Representative Rooney scolded Librarian of Congress L Quincy Mumford: "I was amazed to find...
...Decameron, Datini never knew the terrors of high explosives and concentration camps, let alone the menace of the atomic bomb. In their place he had the Black Death, tyranny, piracy, the ruthless brutality of mercenary armies. He was the son of a Prato tavern-keeper; by wise trading and prudent investment over a period of 32 years, he became rich enough to build his international business...