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...explanations of the aurora borealis over the centuries have been as colorful as the spectacle itself. When great luminous curtains seemed to swish and crackle in the sky, Norsemen knew that Valkyries were riding abroad. Midwestern Indians looked up and thought they saw the fires of northern medicine men making stew of their enemies. Today's Eskimos watch the polar pyrotechnics and mumble about the spirits of the dead. Modern science has still another theory...
Harvard: "...so gay you can hear the swish across the River Charles...
...book, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, two New York Daily Mirror reporters, purports to be an expose on how "greedy groups and misguided ninnies" are making a nightmare of "man's great dream"--America. In one chapter it states that "Harvard is so gay you can hear the swish across the River Charles," and follows this closely with: "Girl queers breed at Wellesley and at many of the fine finishing schools...
...Swish of the Ax. But the most critical decision was made in 1948, when peace was no longer a sure thing but only an outside possibility. Harry Truman had made that decision in a presidential election year. He had rejected the recommendations of Omar Bradley, his other military chiefs, and his Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, who had set the minimum cost of an adequate military force at $18 billion. Such an expenditure could only be borne by jettisoning some of the promises of Mr. Truman's Fair Deal. The President ordered his budgetmakers to cut the military figure...
...policy of economy. Louis Johnson, Forrestal's successor, finally did, but only after he was prodded into it and then in a not-very-loud-voice (he asked for $350 million more). Up to that point the only sounds from Louis Johnson's office had been the swish of the ax and Louis Johnson's reassuring roars that he was simply cutting off fat, never touching a muscle...