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...this famous octogenarian has maintained a disinterested, if controversial, stand; he is a scientist first and foremost, a politician only in afterthought. To some members of the Government Department Siegfried represents the Third Republic incarnate. His own countrymen, however, often compare him with Justice Holmes--a liberal and a skeptic...
...pressure points. The Thursday night students know twenty throws from the hip and many others over the shoulder. The flips look deceptively easy. When one prospective student claimed the victims were helping, he was invited to remove his shoes and resist. In two seconds the instructor had the skeptic head down, feet up; the boy's wallet, comb, and socks were scattered over the ground. When he returned to earth he reassembled himself, mumbled, "It works," and left...
Last week, ten years and a few days after the event, Skeptic Shaw, if he were living, would have had his wish. On Wednesday night the State Department released the mass of records, notes and files on the meeting-834 pages, some half-million words of history. Headlines erupted around the world. Editors and editorial writers worked overtime to get chunks of the material into type...
...fact that matters." N.Z.Z.'s interpretive stories on the facts have made it the most influential and widely respected daily published on the Continent. Strongly antiCommunist, the paper is also an outspoken friend of the U.S., a proponent of free capitalism, a supporter of German rearmament, and a skeptic about the possibilities of permanent peaceful coexistence. N.Z.Z. is in no hurry to print breaking news, and its tabloid-size format is dull. It prints titles instead of headlines, and its circulation (70,000) is small. Yet it is must reading for such diverse political experts as Pundit Walter Lippmann...
...Lick Bad Habits. In 1837 the young Queen Victoria ascended the throne, and the aging Whig skeptic was handed the unusual task of explaining the basic principles of faith and politics to an innocent girl. The young Queen all but fell in love with him. "Dear Lord M" (as the Queen called him in her diary) could explain anything, from the martial conquest of Canada to the marital conduct of Henry VIII ("Those women bothered him so," he told her). He was always so reassuring about everything. "If you have a bad habit," he said, "the best...