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Pierre and Franchise take for granted that when they are incensed they can thrash it all out coolly and methodically, like a problem in one of Pierre's plays. But null soon takes pity on bored, blonde Xaviere and determines to awaken the girl's interest in life. Pierre feels irritated with null for having brought such a chore into their busy lives, and Xaviere. for her part, instantly detests Pierre. Only after a hundred pages of mutual sneers does Pierre decide that it is his duty to lend null a hand...
Last week the U.S. Senate plunged into a debate on the Bricker amendment. Soon over their heads and caught in the crosscurrents of Supreme Court decisions such as Missouri v. Holland and U.S. v. Pink, the Senators tried to thrash their way to familiar ground. For many, this effort led toward the barnyard...
Devised by Harvard Psychologist Burrhus F. Skinner,* the box is a big incubator with the temperature-kept at 88°, humidity at 50%. In it, the Hope twins wore nothing but diapers. The idea was that without confining clothes they could thrash about, play better and grow faster, and that in a controlled atmosphere they would catch fewer colds...
...Prime Minister added, in what seemed a melancholy personal reference: "Time will undoubtedly be needed-more time than some of us here are likely to see." This week Eisenhower, Churchill and France's Premier Laniel decided to gather. with their foreign secretaries, at Bermuda early in December to thrash over the problems posed by Moscow's new hard line...
...small fry, join in the Ra Ra processions that snake out into the countryside, laughing and joking and singing creole chants to the accompaniment of throbbing tambours and booming vaccines (huge bamboo pipes that give off hollow, resonant notes when blown). Waving clubs, machetes and old colonial swords, they thrash through the ravines and cane-brakes, and if by chance they first come upon a neighboring band's Judas, so much the better-they whack it up with glee. By noon Haiti is strewn with dismembered dummies, bleeding sawdust, and rags...