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...ample occasion to study political terror. But when he turned from the Communists' MVD to the Nazis' Gestapo, he found a vast difference in attitudes. There was a mechanical ingenuity to Gestapo methods of torture (a small machine for crushing testicles), and a pseudo-scientific slant to many of their regular duties (victims with perfect teeth were withheld from the incinerators in order to provide the Nazis with perfect skulls for paperweights; the heads of dead Jewish Communist commissars were pickled for an anthropological collection of "subhumans"). Whereas the Russians' prime concern seemed to be confessions...
...ridden with city dirt. He doesn't care much for the ladies (principally Jean Hagen) but admits a weakness for horses. "Math luck's just gotta change," he observes, but one fears that it never does. As farm boy turned gangster, Hayden is supposed to give a new slant to the gun-slinging mobster--victim of environment, sentimental, lovable. Impossible lines and Hayden's mouthing of them preclude a convincing portrayal...
...stuffy Jockey Club, where he complained about the absence of vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia's press hailed his expedition with gleeful gibes. Item: a caricature of Rubirosa whiling away his safari time by pinching a beautiful nude Indian maiden. Asked for his slant on honest labor, the Ding Dong Daddy from Santo Domingo yawned languidly: "It's impossible for me to work. I just don't have time...
Reiss finds that one of the Program's most important aspects is that it puts University students in a different and new context in the Boston community. "It presents to all classes of the educated and uneducated a new slant on Harvard. Students show the city another dimension of themselves. Moreover, a gradual growth of the volunteer idea to other colleges seems entirely likely," he believes...
Creighton Merrell will no doubt be happy with the Democratic Digest [Oct. 24]. While unhappily there are more Democrats than Republicans, it would also seem reasonable that TIME might slant its views a little to the party having the greater number of constituents who are able to read. As the old story goes, the Arkansas patriarch stated he was proud of all his nine boys except one, and he turned out to be a Republican-funny thing about him though, he was the only one who went off and learned how to read...