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...Grievous Suffering." When they first met on the Purdue University campus, Students Reiner and Klaus haggled over the price of a secondhand psychology textbook that Reiner wanted to sell. Says Klaus: "The argument was academic. I didn't have any money." Klaus and Reiner soon found a source. After Minneapolis-Honeywell offered Reiner a postgraduation job-and then withdrew the offer-they drove to Minneapolis, badgered the company into a cash settlement on grounds of "inconvenience and grievous mental suffering." They headed for California, opened a candy business that folded when World War II came along...
Detroit had always brushed off demands for a lower-priced small car with the remark that motorists could buy a good secondhand big car for about the same price. But the purchase price proved not the chief factor. The secondhand car usually burned more gas and oil, needed more repairs, was less economical than the foreign...
...Ernie Kovacs as a humanity-minded hospital patient who becomes so fascinated with medical mystique that he buys a secondhand stethoscope for $3 and sends Hippocrates diving for cover...
Billed as a "Serious Comedy," Period sounds more like a mad gothic anecdote. A couple of newly weds (Robert Webber and Barbara Baxley) drive up in a secondhand funeral limousine to the home of the groom's wartime buddy (James Daly). Left alone with the buddy, the bride ruefully sums up the first 36 hours of life with hubby: he shakes with an uncontrollable psychosomatic tremor, drinks incessantly "to keep warm," on their wedding night leaped at her like a satyr, frightening her so much she spent the whole night sitting up in a chair...
...scholarly air, Mao is almost totally ignorant of science (which he dislikes) and, by the testimony of one of his former teachers, is "terrible at mathematics." Except for whatever he may have picked up on two brief trips to Moscow, he knows the world outside China only at secondhand, and according to Chang Kuo-tao, once his colleague on the Chinese Communist Politburo, he is a poor administrator ("Vague about details and has a rather poor memory about people who are not constantly around him"). Essentially, Mao's world is an imaginary one-a curious melange of Chinese monarchical...