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...correspondent of London Conservative Daily Mail melodramatically reported: "I watched a sickening spectacle. I watched a leading Blantyre policeman do these things to Africans who never hit back: strike them across the stomachs with stout black canes, knee Africans who were pleading for symbolic arrest, strike women . . ." Added the London Daily Telegraph of the watching Europeans: "I heard one remark, 'Funny little monkeys, aren't they...
...armed with 16 nuclear-tipped, 1,200-mile-range Polaris missiles, ready to prowl the globe as an undersea missile-launching platform. She is the first of a projected nine Polaris subs that will give the U.S. a new order of strategic capability against the Soviet Union. "Under this stout hull," said Dr. George Kistiakowsky, President Eisenhower's chief scientific adviser, "there are now hidden-or will soon be-the most advanced and diverse products of our technology; turbine and rocket propulsion, nuclear power and nuclear weapons, electronics ... It is a breathtaking microcosm of American technology." Blue & Gold...
...Rogues. Charles Greenough Mortimer was born in Brooklyn, the son of a brilliant but unbusinesslike inventor father and a sensible, businesslike mother, who is still alive at 86. A stout boy who learned to fight early because his playmates called him "Fatty," he was an only child and one of a long string of Charles Greenough Mortimers. "I made the mistake once," he says, "of tracing the Mortimers back to England. I got as far as the one who seduced the wife of Edward II and I stopped. They were all rogues...
Because of its personalized approach to its readers, Aufbau has developed a stout reader loyalty, gone far to uphold Editor George's claims that it has grown into "a paper for uprooted people all over the world." Wrote one Aufbau reader: "Gratitude alone would be an important factor in my continuing to read the paper...
Last week Dawkins was promoted to Oxford's first team to play against Blackheath, one of Britain's top teams. Treating Blackheath as though it were Navy, Dawkins crashed home on two tries in Oxford's 36-0 victory. Hoisting a friendly pint of stout with his opponents after the game ("Something we unfortunately don't have in American football"), Dawkins had no illusions that he had yet nailed down a berth on the Oxford team that will play Cambridge. Said he modestly: "I am just getting past the stage where I'm getting used...