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Galbraith has been away a long time, so now he can look back wryly and serenely on the frugal farmers who grew a cornucopia of crops, on the old Baptist church where no collection plate was passed, on the chaste, sober citizens who were chaste and sober largely because sin was expensive. Penny pinching was a way of life. If Galbraith's politicking father ever earned the disapprobation of his fellow citizens, it was not because he bought votes, but because he might have got them cheaper...
...mood of the Cairo conference was a sober one. Nasser him self best expressed it in his welcoming address to the Africans: "We are all in the same boat. We have all, in one way or another, struggled for independence. We have all achieved it in one form or another. Yet, at the very moment of victory, we discovered that the end we had reached was only the beginning of the real challenge...
Advance to the Rear. Since any departure from formula comedy seems worthy, a slapstick farce about the Civil War perhaps deserves a nod for trying a different attack. This frolic manages, however, to be unremittingly fast, flip, energetic, and for the most part humorless. Based on a sober historical novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish...
Christian Science in the past has often seemed as sober and conservative as its best-known creation, the daily Monitor (circ. 190,000). Now there seems to be a measurable quickening of the church's missionary impulse, both at home and abroad. U.S. "branches" of the Mother Church total 2,449, up 106 in a decade, and foreign branches now number 819. Best outside guess at membership: 400,000. Forty new Christian Science clubs have been formed on U.S. college campuses...
More impressive than Mulcahy's flashy tests are some sober statistics compiled in recent months by various state authorities. A survey made last year by Illinois' Bureau of Traffic reported that the death rate of compact and small-car drivers was double the death rate of other passenger-car drivers. A similar report by Maine, published in April, showed a fatality rate for persons in compacts (defined as cars under 3,000 lbs.) that is 51 times as great as that of full-size cars. Studies of the California Highway Patrol found that small-car occupants suffer...