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Harvard men are even more dogged than their Radcliffe counterparts in insisting that awesome individualism and, consequently, unfathomable multiplicity, are their only measure. To snip ungainly squares out of the brilliant patchwork that is Harvard would be the most impudent and absurd of tasks. Harvard men will not suffer themselves to be set in little boxes. Nor should they...
Through the open French doors came the sound of fountains splashing and the snip of gardeners cutting back foliage. Inside, men clad in shorts, slacks and sports shirts sat beneath an oak-beamed ceiling. Idyllic? No, pedagogic. The men were policymakers from 35 U.S. business firms, spending six weeks in an atmosphere that is part classroom, part sales conference and part religious retreat at the 25th session of Columbia University's Executive Program in Business Administration...
...greeted Paz at the airport and hoisted him to its shoulders. In town, a banner-wielding throng of 7,000 jammed the narrow streets, waving and shouting, "Workers for Victor Paz." "This is an emotional experience for me," Paz told the crowd, and went on with Henderson to snip a ribbon on an Alianza-financed road project, inspect a new water plant and attend a civic banquet. On the flight back to La Paz, the President allowed that "this has been a great...
...self-defense corps post even tried a bit of Viet Cong-type cunning. Getting word that the Reds planned to cut the post's barbed-wire fence by night and stage a raid, the corpsmen lay in ambush outside the post. They allowed the Viet Cong to snip through the first layer of wire, then pelted them with hand grenades. The defenders lost one man; but the Viet Cong's 37 attackers were wiped...
...directions to set things in order. Maccari saw plenty that needed to be set in order. He saw the dread Spiritual Daughters squabbling over a cushion on which the padre had knelt, finally tearing it to bits. He saw other women following the padre about, armed with scissors to snip off pieces of his cassock. When he discovered that bandages dipped in chicken blood were being sold as having come from Padre Pio's wounds, he declared, "This is superstition, not faith," and returned to Rome...