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...knows she will get it." Fair exchange. For after signing a list of contractual demands that took 41 pages and nine months to accommodate, Sexagenarian Marlene Dietrich agreed to a two-week stand in Johannesburg, her first South African appearance. Among other whims, such as having every last speck of dust hand-whisked from the stage before curtain time, Marlene insisted on two separate dressing rooms: one to "relax" in, one to dress in, so to speak...
Cornell's varsity swimming team comes recently into the IAB this afternoon four, but the Redmen will be in for a shockingly unpleasant surprise. The Crimson angry after last week's loss to Princess and trying not to think about next speck's meet with Yale, will beat Cornell, probably by as big a margin as it desires. Harvard, with losses only to Princeton and Army, now has a 6-2 over-all record. It can beat Cornell today, the varsity will finish with a 7-3 mark and a possible for third in the Eastern Intercollegiate League. This would...
Like a summer sunburn from the beach, the victim of snow blindness may not feel it until several hours afterwards. The first indication will be a slight visual discomfort like a speck in the eye. This worsens until the eyes burn as though full of grains of sand, with accompanying frofuse flow of tears and swelling of the eyelids. The patient will dread the sight of bright light...
Like a summer sunburn from the beach, the victim of snow blindness may not feel it until several hours afterwards. The first indication will be a slight visual discomfort like a speck in the eye. This worsens until the eyes burn as though full of grains of sand, with accompanying frofuse flow of tears and swelling of the eyelids. The patient will dread the sight of bright light...
...years that he served as Secretary-General, Hammarskjöld drove himself mercilessly to become "pure of heart" in the service of others: "On a really clean tablecloth, the smallest speck of dirt annoys the eye. At high altitudes, a moment's self-indulgence may mean death." Yet he remained ever and exquisitely aware of the ambiguities of even the best-intentioned human behavior and never became self-righteous about his own projects: "The 'great' commitment all too easily obscures the 'little' one. But without the humility and warmth which you have to develop...