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...Crimson's "Confi-Guide": inside scoop on all courses. Sample: Government 130, taught by Presidential Adviser Don K. Price, who "can usually be found in Washington," with the result that "his appearances usually seemed unprepared, were often unintelligible and practically never interesting." Or: "Philosophy 140 explores deductive logic to the immense boredom of everyone, including Professor Willard Quine. The lectures are insulting, the homework assignments mechanical, the sections poor, and the reading-period selections juvenile...
...scoop was typical of a style official Washington has ruefully come to know. Betty Beale is nosy, pushy and blunt. She snoops. She pries. Society is scared stiff to be noticed in her column, because mention once too often brings prompt exclusion from the nation's most elegant salons-the White House especially. She behaves like a police reporter, thinks like an editorial writer, and, as a perfectly natural result, she is easily the best society reporter in town-and in the country...
...mighty nigh ruint me." Concluded Senator Ervin: "That is about what Senator McCarthy has done to the Senate." Ervin made his point, even while lightening the Senate atmosphere. He did it again during a 1956 hearing of the Senate's airpower subcommittee, when Washington's Democratic Senator "Scoop" Jackson and then Defense Secretary Charles Wilson got into a name-calling argument. Ervin busted in: "I've always been able to sympathize with what Jonah is reputed to have said after the whale threw him off on dry land after three days: 'If you'd kept...
...last week, cried Washington Democratic Senator "Scoop" Jackson. The cause of his elation: he had just heard of the on-target success of the first U.S. attempt to fire a Polaris missile with a live nuclear warhead from a submarine...
Cannon to First. Both are uncommonly nimble and uncommonly sturdy-equally adept at knocking down vicious line drives with their chests, or charging home plate to scoop up a dying bunt. And both have the kind of 90-mm. arm to make the long throw to first. But the talents do not stop there...