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From your story, it seems that the investigating committee doesn't actually have a shred of concrete evidence to prove that Mr. Baker is doing anything more than taking advantage of his associations to help further his speculative interests...
...effect of parietal rules on the community is not pretty. A student who tries to discuss the regulations with members of the Administration finds it hard to believe that anyone-concerned has even a shred of rationality. It helps to remember that many of these men have teenage daughters, but the excuse is not really sufficient. Even Masters and Senior Tutors who do not respect the rules make no effort to improve them; they operate, instead, under a policy of convert contempt for them, which makes respect for rules and Masters even more difficult-the usual defense offered by those...
...since they are, something will have to be done to get Britain into the Common Market soon, if only to salvage some shred of Harold Macmillan's prestige. Macmillan has been badly damaged by the manifest failure of his two major foreign policies: the special relationship with the United States, which Kennedy killed in Nassau, and entry into the Common Market, which De Gaulle now threatens to kill in Brussels. If De Gaulle carries out his threat, Macmillan is done, and when Labour comes in after the next General Election, Britain and Europe will go their own ways...
SCRUFFY, by Paul Gallico (299 pp.; Doubleday; $4.50). Scruffy was a Barbary ape and, according to Writer Paul Gallico, the male animal that did most to turn the tide of World War II. Gallico invented him and his doings from a single shred of fact: during the war Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued orders that the ape population of Gibraltar be preserved, in deference to the legend that when the last ape leaves the rock, the British will, too. The monkey tricks that roll out of Gallico's typewriter are frantic but predictable. The crisis, brought on by fifth...
...Bludgeoned to death," the Chief was saying. "Brutally mauled and mutilated horribly.... No means of identification...Fingerprints removed by simply cutting off the tips of the fingers,...The only shred of evidence was a circle with a Roman numeral seven stamped on the sole of the right foot...