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When Patrick Paddy Hale left his native County Sligo in Ireland to volunteer in the Royal Air Force, he probably never imagined that duty would take him to a country some of whose inhabitants might regard him as a kind of latter-day Black and Tan sent by the British to frustrate a legitimate demand for self-determination. But Paddy Hale was ordered to Cyprus, where for 2½ years he lived quietly off port with his wife. One day last May three Cypriot laborers came to the hut at Nicosia airport where Corporal Hale worked. They asked for water...
...sheets coated with decorative, pliable vinyl plastic. The premium-priced sheets can be stamped directly into finished parts for automobiles, appliances, furniture and other products that now are cast, then enameled. By eliminating finishing, overall costs are cut. U.S. Steel foresees "plastic steel" automobiles with simulated white morocco or tan cowhide finish...
...array of friendly white neighbors took the stand to testify that Nicholas was accepted as a white in the neighborhood. But a more dramatic witness, a tan woman, took the stand, and carefully avoiding Nicholas' eyes, said: "My name is Susan Jacobs. I am the sister of the accused. I am colored and married to a colored. The accused is a colored." Crossexamined, she then blurted that two other brothers live as Europeans. Evidence piled up: colored, colored, colored...
Yale taste ranges generously over 500 years of art, from Hans Memling's Annunciation, El Greco's Christ Bearing Cross and Rembrandt's Gèrard de Lairesse, all owned by Manhat tan Financier Robert Lehman ('13), to such high-velocity moderns as Jackson Pollock's Wounded Beast, 1943, owned by lectors' Art taste Critic is most Thomas B. accurately Hess ('42). reflected by But the current heavy U.S. corncetration in 19th and 20th century European masters. Top favorite: Picasso (seven paintings), followed by Degas, Braque, Cèzanne, Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh...
...varsity lacrosse team spent a week following some of the nation's finest opposition around the green fields of the Southern Territory, picking up sun tan and bruises and perhaps a little wisdom. At week's end, they piled into their bus and followed the blizzard from Annapolis to Boston. Road time...