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...former Syrian nationalist leader who was unanimously elected president by Parliament in Sept. 1950. This week, murmuring appropriate thanks to Attassi for his integrity, Shishekly issued "Communique No. 2," tossing Attassi out of the presidency, and dissolving parliament. Then he reached into his vest pocket for a Colonel Fawzi Silo, whom he installed as chief of state, Premier and defense minister, pending "restoration of normal parliamentary life...
...bloodlessly disposed of Premier, cabinet, president and Parliament, Shishekly called in Arab editors and announced: "I don't want to become a dictator. I am a simple colonel, and my duty is as chief of staff. All of the country's responsibilities are in the hands of Silo...
...other occupations of Msgr. Ronald Arbuthnott Knox during the past 30 years have earned him an international reputation as the urbane and witty chaplain-litterateur at Oxford's Trinity College, as the author of both brittle whodunits (The Body in the Silo) and brilliant essays in Roman Catholic theology, and as perhaps the ablest modern translator of the Bible. His new book, three decades in the making ("mastering my authorities in trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them . . .") is titled Enthusiasm (Oxford; $6). In it, Author Knox brings...
...they can and do roam into many other fields. "Nowadays," says Assistant Superintendent Roy Hinderman, "history teachers teach spelling, biology teachers teach spelling, and spelling teachers teach spelling." But such matters as spelling, or math, or writing, are only the beginning. Taken alone, they are, insists Kenneth Oberholtzer, just "silo education, or storing up facts." Subjects must be related to each other and to life around them. What good is history, the educators ask, unless it is tied in with current events, or with what's going on in Denver...
...this passage in the U.S.-British agreement: "Fungible materials and minor items of equipment which are, for all practical purposes, fungible, shall be treated as such." Explained a bright young State Department lawyer to baffled Washington newsmen: "That's easy. You put grain into the top of a silo, you take grain out of the bottom of the silo. Grain is grain. What you put in and what you take out is fungible-interchangeable...