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...hold a scheduled rally in front of the Parliament building? Boldizar explained that another party had somehow obtained a priority permit for the same place at the same time. What he referred to was an outfit called the Independent Hungarian Democrats, led by one Rev. Istvan Balogh-a tame "opposition" party which the Government had kept around for show-window purposes...
Hazardous Past. The tight-lipped Atomic Energy Commission did not tell all it knows about the new "reactor." The active substance is plutonium, which wrecked Nagasaki. This time it is under exact control. In operation since last November, the tame bomb can be throttled down until "the heat produced in the core of the reactor is no greater than that given off by a kitchen oven...
Said Ruark: "I don't know whether General Lee or his gabbling flock of tame colonels write the rules, but as Emperor of the area he has to hold still for the rap. ... It may be an army that General Lee is running, but to me it looks more like a combination of junket, political shakedown, misuse of Governmentmaterial, maltreatment of subordinates and a happy hunting-ground for desk-bound brass which spent most of its war at home and is now trying to embalm its rank abroad...
Died. Jeff D. Milton, 85, oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...
Sullivan didn't admire all the Union selections-he had never read The Anatomy of Melancholy, considers Chesterfield dull and pompous, and The Virginian "tame stuff for a student in the atomic age." Besides, nobody had stolen any Shakespeare or Dickens. His consoling afterthought: "Well, the academic year is only half over...