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...like Washington's more bang for the buck"). Bevanite joined Tory in cries for an immediate reduction in the two-year draft.-The press was full of features about wasteful and frivolous practices in the armed services (the R.A.F. colonel who had his batmen dress up in Louis XIV servant rig for a costume ball...
...College. Eldest of four brothers, Paul (as his family preferred to call him) had a strange boyhood. He learned to speak Portuguese long before he was permitted to pick up English; he was seldom allowed to play with other children, and his closest companion was his parents' Negro servant, a pro boxer from Barbados. When his mother tried to strap the unruly youngster into bed for his afternoon nap, he would shout at the top of his voice, and in Portuguese: "Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation...
Last week, Yu got a third visitation: three unidentified ruffians waited in the shadows of his doorway as he drove up to his house, ordered him inside and shot him dead. Called by a fleeing servant, the police arrived in time to kill one assailant while the others fled. Loath to borrow trouble in matters involving Formosa and Peking, the Hong Kong police at first attempted to dismiss the whole incident as "a simple robbery," but later, thinking better of it, posted a whopping reward of $3,500 for the missing murderers...
Squeezed-Out Hero. "The 'socially integrated' intellectual is really not an intellectual at all, but an expert servant," says Molnar. "For if Western society has suffered a single great loss in the last hundred years, it is the principle of authority, and it is questionable whether the single great gain during the same period, the conquest of science, can make...
...Civil Servant. In Salt Lake City, after he called police and asked them to remove a dog that had been run over near his home, M. S. McRae was referred to the city dog catcher, was unable to reach him, indignantly called the mayor, was amazed to see Mayor Earl J. Glade arrive in his Cadillac, step out, gingerly lift the animal into his trunk compartment and drive off in the direction of the dog pound...