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...axiom comes straight from 18th and 19th century political lore. From his contention that the government serves only as a guardian of the natural laws of competition follow all his domestic positions. But in foreign policy the benign policeman becomes a strong-armed archangel, a Michael brandishing his flaming sword around the globe, turning deaf ears on the cries of the stricken. Goldwater himself admits that his is not the spirit of the times: "You are not going to reverse all these trends immediately. If you did it would be rather disastrous...
Hopper (5) 9. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (6) 10. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton...
...TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD, Cation...
...makers of the picture, even handouts. Thus, when he wondered how some Japanese film makers got the effect of blood gushing from a samurai victim's chest, a report from the Tokyo bureau enabled him to write in his review of The Idiot (May 17): "Mifume's sword trips a valve concealed beneath his opponent's kimono and opens a tank containing a gallon of vegetable oil, iron oxide, water and chocolate sauce under 40 pounds of pressure. Spfluurrroooooooooosh!" He composes his reviews on a yellow-lined pad in pencil ("Typewriters talk back at you"), leaving...
...stainless blade could be honed as keenly as carbon steel. Uddeholm sold batches of that steel to Gillette in the 1930s, but stainless blades did not catch on because shavers found them irregular in quality. A sudden and tremendous demand began a year ago, after Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. brought out a blade coated with silicon plastic to make it smooth as well as sharp.* Wilkinson's steel comes from Uddeholm, which also supplies American Safety Razor and Schick. Under its research-minded president, Wilhelm Ekman, 51, Uddeholm has quadrupled its stainless blade output since...