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...letter that said Lavon gave his approval to the "disastrous" operation. The decision last week was passed on to the Cabinet. Ben-Gurion angrily insisted that Lavon, who admittedly helped plan the affair even if he did not order it into operation, should not be allowed to get off scot free and leave patriotic army officers holding...
...thinks it is great that Houston can be allowed to field a cross country team composed of a 30-year-old Polish refugee, three Australians aged 28, 26, and 25, and a 24-year-old Scot. The magazine thinks it is even better that McNeese State College in Louisiana managed to recruit a 39-year-old English coal miner and cross country runner...
Sooner or later, readers of Muriel Spark's fiction come to understand that they have been hornswoggled in the very nicest way. The tactics of this talented Scot are essentially those of the confidence man. The Spark reader is entertained by an apparently straightforward, witty story-until the moment arrives when the rug is twitched from beneath his feet, or when a corps of spooks, bogies and supernatural agents start moving the furniture about, playing the devil with the shapes of common objects...
...built up an impressive record of courtroom success. Items: Chippy handled 401 cases of homicide. "Even with 'cop killers,'" reports the author, "regarded by all living policemen as bloodstains on their shields, he did rather well." Chippy handled 25 such defendants; five of them got off scot-free, 15 went to prison, only five went to the chair. In the remaining 376 cases, Chippy won 166 acquittals; 207 of his clients went to jail for an average of only six years apiece; only three were executed...
...cancer; in Portland. Of all his multiple interests, the indefatigable MacNaughton most relished his unpaid post at endowment-dwindling Reed. Ending about every extravagance except the famed twelve-man classes ("We don't want to water down our professors with students"), the blustery Scot, a self-styled "Republican with a move on," badgered his conservative friends into unprecedented contributions to what they had long considered "those Reed pinkos," put the college in the black for the first time in years...