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...Kefauver committee" began snuffling about in search of scofflaws, it turned almost automatically on the Gulf Coast's island city of Galveston (pop. 65,000)-always one of the widest-open towns in the U.S. But Galveston's politicos and gamblers betrayed neither the sheepish guilt, the sullen defiance nor the outraged innocence commonly shown by victims...
Cabled TIME'S Hong Kong Bureau Chief Robert Neville last week: "Red China is in deep trouble. Early enthusiasm for the Red regime has now turned to sullen resentment, distrust and despair. The educated and the articulate seem to shrink away in shame and disgust from events over which they can have no control. If those Chinese who escape to Hong Kong are judges, a widespread disaffection has set in. Many people are certain that were it not for the secret police and the firing squad, hatred for the Peking government would soon spark into action...
When the cops tried to bar her way, she lied desperately: "I know him. I can stop him." They let her into the room. She leaned out. The boy had dark hair and a long jaw; his eyes were sullen, sly, dazed. He was standing on a sloping, twelve-inch rim of stone, his toes lower than his heels...
Last week Lieut. Hodgkin, an elderly party (42) as the stunt-flying business goes, pulled on his long underwear, loaded his plane with blankets and took off to conquer Washington's sullen, 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier, fourth highest peak in the continental U.S. A friend in another private plane flew alongside just to keep an eye on him. Hodgkin's tiny plane toiled upward. About 400 ft. from the summit Hodgkin cut the gun, headed downhill into the shrieking updraft and settled in to a neat landing on a shallow slope. "It was easy," he said later...
...stop claiming that its pills are specific remedies for conditions in which an individual feels "down-and-out, blue, down-in-the-dumps, worn out, sunk, logy, depressed, sluggish, allin, listless, mean, low, cross, tired, stuffy, heavy, miserable, sour, grouchy, irritable, cranky, peevish, fagged out, dull, sullen, what's-the-use, bogged down, grumpy, run down or gloomy...