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...arteriosclerosis, and we have compared the cholesterol levels of these patients with those of normal, healthy people," he says. "We can find no consistent, significant relation between the cholesterol levels and the extent and severity of the disease." The effects of stress the pragmatic surgeon dismisses with characteristic scorn: "Man was made to work, and work hard. I don't think it ever hurt anyone...
...lines fall where they may. Actress Baker behaves in a manner befitting a missionary's daughter who aspires to become a sex symbol, but in movies as forced, synthetic and flaccid as Mister Moses, one false image more or less need not be held up to undue scorn...
...McGeorge Bundy's churlish reply deserves high marks, if he wants them, for its chilliness and scorn. However, these are not qualities that I, at least, greatly admire in a public official so fatefully close to the President of the U.S. They are signs not of intellectual incisiveness or of moral rigor but only of bureaucratic self-righteousness and too-prolonged insulation from the ever-growing anxieties that Mr. Bundy's ex-colleagues in universities everywhere feel toward the foreign policies that he has helped to shape in recent years. His mind is more rapid than accurate, more...
...letter in this week's issue of time magazine, Aiken decried the chilliness and scorn" of a letter written by Bundy--and printed in Time (May 7) in which he rejected the invitation 127 faculty members to come to Washington University and answer their questions about Vietnam...
...answer was no, he would not. Bundy, who can chill a polar bear with his codfish-cold scorn, replied that his schedule was crowded; besides, he could hardly accept "an invitation given on ten days' notice." There were, however, a few points he wanted to impress on the scholars. Wrote he, in his icy reply...