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Sword & Umbrella. Earlier, Correspondent Sydney Smith of the London Daily Express cabled: "The final desperate stretch of routed South Koreans ranged from 16-wheeled tank-recovery vehicles to the smallest patrol cars . . . On some trucks I saw senior Korean unit commanders sitting among their troops, wearing white gloves, and carrying an official sword in one hand, and in the other a tree bough held over their heads like an umbrella. The South Koreans' terror of the Yaks' strafing has turned a sprig of leaves into a symbol of security...
...smallest towns are dying, the biggest are none too healthy. Big-city growth has lost momentum. To the chagrin of boosters, city after city is learning that it is not as big as it thought. New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Cleveland have fallen far short of their proud expectations. Lowell, Mass, and Salt Lake City have indignantly demanded recounts...
...observatory and startled the astronomers by naming the major constellations, and describing the planets and their characteristics. At six, he wrote a learned little essay on the atom (though in those days, he spelled it "andn"). At seven, he wrote another paper on "Cellula" structures ("the amoebas is the smallest cell...
...booing him. He ducked and danced and ran. He was caught and hit; he clinched and held; he ran again." After a visit to the Westminster Dog Show, Smith announced a discovery: "The ladies tethered to the tiny toys are invariably the most magnificent members of the species . . . The smallest pooch noted was towing the largest handler, a celestial creature measuring 17½ hands at the withers, deep of chest, with fine, sturdy pasterns...
Clinical Psychology draws the most specialists, Sociology and Social Psychology are about equal, and Social Anthropology is the smallest field. About ten to fifteen percent of concentrators go on to graduate work in Soc. Rel., which is an essential prerequisite to obtaining a good position in any of the four fields...