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...called. But he listened hard, developed some ideas about the proper way to address a colleague during debate. "If you and he are in complete agreement," he told a shoe and leather men's banquet last week in Boston, "you address him merely as 'The Senator from such-and-such a state.' If you are not too sure he agrees wholly with you, you should refer to him as 'The able Senator from-.' But if you know there is violent disagreement on an issue, there is only one way to address him: The able...
That order was passed on to General Medaris in what Medaris calls "good old-fashioned military terminology, 'You will on or about such-and-such a date do so-and so.' It just delighted my soul." Such-and-such a date turned out to be Friday, Jan. 31, 1958, when the U.S. Army missile team, which had just kind of refused to die, launched the first U.S. satellite...
This line of reasoning missed some basic facts about contemporary U.S. politics. More than ever before Congressmen and congressional candidates are trying to read the public mind, rather than to persuade the voters that such-and-such a course is right. A Democratic victory that included the re-election of liberal Paul Douglas, for instance, would be interpreted by scores of ear-flapping Congressmen of both parties as a sure sign that the nation had swung leftward again. Similarly, the defeat of such Eisenhower Republicans as New Jersey's Clifford Case together with victory for right-wing Republicans would...
...creamy frothiness of beer and ignores its alcoholic content. Dr. J. Raymond Schmidt, of the International Order of Good Templars, expressing fear of the snob appeal of TV, told a pathetic story of "a little tot who says to her mother, 'Why don't you drink such-and-such a beer like the fashionable ladies do?'" Questioning developed that Crusader Schmidt did not have too much firsthand knowledge of the effects of TV on tiny tots: he admitted he has neither a TV set nor any children...
...received a seventy-five percent response. This, the only method open to the Council in its investigation, has two serious limitations which must be mentioned before discussing the Council's conclusions. First, if the questions are to be useful, they must probe far deeper than the usual Do you think such-and-such is 1)good 2)bad (3) type of questionnaire. The resulting questions, such as how much has G.E. "improved your ability in dealing with problems effectively and critically...?" are enough to tax even the most sensitive and perceptive student, and his decision must be considered as partly...