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Gold-Rush Days. "Cump" Sherman's "nervous-sanguine temperament" showed itself early in his Ohio boyhood. He so hated his red hair that he tried to dye it black, and succeeded only in producing an unhealthy shade of green. At 16, looking to his Eastern relatives like "an untamed animal just caught in the Far West," Sherman entered West Point, and at 20 he was graduated, "standing highest in engineering, geology, rhetoric, mental philosophy, and demerits...
Iran's frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq last week left the Parliament building, where he had been holed up for 20 days in fear of assassins, and moved back to his home. The Iranian situation, for weeks as black as oil, was getting just a shade brighter...
...revenues). Iran not only lacks capital to pay this, but probably will not even be able to raise the $60 million needed annually for the company's operations. Mossadeq will not compromise on anything he considers a basic issue, but even his attitude last week seemed just a shade softer...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria recognized this as the voice of the U.S. State Department. The members of Manhattan's China Institute, which for 25 years had devoted itself to the nonpartisan cause of closer friendship between the Chinese and American people, represented every shade of opinion on the Far East themselves, but none had expected Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Dean Rusk to speak with such firmness...
...front, a mess of chromium inside, and an easily evident juke box," he wrote, "what you get to eat would poison an ostrich . . . They will take a perfectly good horse-burger out of the freezer, and it comes to the customer, after subjection to the stove, a deep shade of grey and curled at the edges . . . There is no law which says that a roll or a piece of bread must be kept in the refrigerator and served stark and chilled, but there is a general suspicion that heating a biscuit is punishable by fine and imprisonment . . . I have observed...