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...designate, James Patrick McGranery,*minus an asbestos suit. Fires were immediately lighted under him. Some Congressmen said they would try to hold up his confirmation as Attorney General until they had questioned him thoroughly in his role in the Amerasia case (see box). From another quarter came an even sharper attack ; Philadelphia District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, a fellow Philadelphia Democrat, predicted: "The regime of McGranery will be marked by incompetence, bias, favoritism and ward politics at its worst." McGranery shrugged off the assault: "If the Senate feels I am crooked, or it has no confidence in my abilities...
...troubled world of 1952, the Pursuit of Happiness had brought no peace. The innocent nation suddenly found itself fighting world Communism, which proclaims its own innocency and purity of motive in even sharper shades of black & white. The Communists, in their way, held the same conviction as the American liberal idealists: that man or groups of men can make history jump through hoops. Where liberals said evil was caused by ignorance, bad social institutions or other "manageable" human defects, the Communists narrowed it down to the institution of property. For the liberal idea of the natural goodness of man, Communists...
...outrageous. The U.S., said the English-language paper, was helping Pakistan's railroads by sending more than $650,000 worth of neckties to dress up the road's uniformed employees. The country needed wheat, cried the Observer, not neckties. What the paper itself apparently needed was a sharper translator: the U.S. was sending wooden railroad ties, which in Pakistan are known only by the British name, "sleepers...
...about a slicing machine that apparently does its work without even touching the material that it slices. The machine has a small circular blade that is spun by an electric motor at 65,000 r.p.m. Its rim, moving faster than sound, forms a cutting edge of compressed air much sharper than a razor. Hard metals can be sliced into films two-millionths of an inch thick. Since the blade does not get dull, Dr. Fullam believes that it never touches the work...
...some authenticity en route. But the Budapest group played Ravel's F Major Quartet with all the suavity of tone and relaxation of phrasing that the piece required. In thematic structure and general outline the work is similar to the better-known Debussy quartet, but the contrasts seem much sharper here. The long, meditative third movement and the very short, intense finale demand virtuosity as well as restraint--two qualities for which the Budapest Quartet is famous. Ravel's skillful use of the quartet timbre, per se, was tastefully demonstrated by the perfect balance and fluency of Sunday's performance...