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...pleasure to see a magazine of your caliber devote a little intelligent attention to the sport of weight lifting [Sept. 14], a form of athletic competition which, in its rude forms, is as ancient as any . . . and is deserving of more than the jealous jeers hurled at it by lesser...
Author Treece's story, which gallops along at the pace of a western movie, is full of soothsayers, blood oaths and hoary legends. Its best scenes catch the rude vigor of the times, e.g., the annual ceremony of a human sacrifice to the sun god, in which a red-haired youth chosen by the druids has his heart pierced with a mistletoe stake; Claudius' surprise weapon, a cavalry of elephants and camels, stampeding the horses of the Celtic charioteers into snorting, neighing chaos...
Secretary Robert B. Anderson, a 43-year-old Texas lawyer, estate manager and Boy Scout worker, appeared to fit these specifications. Last week the Navy got a rude awakening. Bob Anderson, six months in office, moved an admiral out of a top Navy Department job because of "policy differences...
...Korean unity must be achieved, and that ... if everything does not go exactly as Mr. Dulles wants it, then the U.S. may go on its own . . . That is a very dangerous matter." Labor backbencher Jack Jones carried this attackon policy into personal vituperation. "I do not want to be rude," he said, "but one could quickly misconstrue the word 'Dulles' into 'dull...
BUREAUCRATS: "The rude and heartless behavior of bureaucrats must cease...