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...pronunciation of Bolingbroke. Otherwise, the Loeb has poured its professional competence freely: there is much swordplay, adequately trained; Donald Soule's stolid set suits the play superbly; the devices on shields are undoubtedly authentic; perfectionists designed the costumes. Not much less, it must be admitted, should surround this Falstaff...
Though he hurtles around London in a Mark X Jaguar-which he rammed into a lowly Morris on his way to Kensington Palace last week-Ogilvy is a canny, quiet businessman who is rarely seen with the popinjay set that used to surround Princess Margaret. Only a year ago, he confided to a friend: "I'm too old for marriage." The Airlies are frequent guests at the Palace, and Angus is his wife's 18th cousin, but he met Alexandra only eight years ago; their engagement last fall was approved "with great pleasure" by her first cousin, Queen...
...Sooner the Better. One of the first of the pressure pioneers, Amsterdam's Dr. Ite Boerema (pronounced Boor-uh-muh), did his earliest work with his smallest patients-"blue babies," whose red blood cells were being starved of oxygen. Born with defects in the heart or its surround ing great vessels, such children are so frail that drastic surgery can kill them. The sooner they can have a corrective operation, the better. Dr. Boerema reasoned that if he could operate under double or triple atmospheric pressure and make the youngsters breathe pure oxygen through a mask, their red cells...
Scientific issues involving race are confused, both by the personal biases of the investigators, and by the inconsistencies and inaccuracies which surround scientific notions of the subject. In the 200 years since races were first studied, no one has been able to provide an adequate definition of "race." Many have been proposed. Skin color and hair texture were among the first racial criteria; head shape, height, and a myriad of other traits were added later, until the number of different races became cumbersomely large...
...wartime leadership) Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. Aloofness, character, and the personification of greatness, these qualities it is that surround with prestige those who are prepared to carry a burden which is too heavy for lesser mortals...