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...Having seen the picture of the champion pointer and read the account of how these dogs are trained, I would now like to see a picture of this dog's owner, complete with all his ribs showing, wearing a spiked collar, having a chaw of tobacco thrust down his throat, with his hind end full of buckshot, and eating partridge liberally laced with long sharp needles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1963 | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...dispatch box in front of him. "It's been twelve years since I last spoke in this House," he began.* In the next few minutes it became all too plain that the cozier, clubbish style of the House of Lords had blunted Douglas-Home's debating thrust, and his supporters missed his usual pungent wit. After a long, meandering preamble, he launched into a lackluster exposition of ambitious government policies for the coming year. "The formula," said he flatly, "is growth without inflation, and the method, acceleration from positions previously prepared." Groaned one Conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Into Battle | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...take your new letter to be the Association's considered response to our request for clarification. And, although there are still traces of ambiguity in details of your phrasing, the main thrust of the Association's purpose seems to us now to be made quite clear. The stated purpose is to have a student organization which will be exclusively African and American Negro. Your letter calls the policy by the name, "anti-racist racism." It goes on to justify the purpose at length in terms of acute present-day social needs. And you call upon Harvard to recognize that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Watson's Letter | 11/20/1963 | See Source »

...toss its heavier load 1,000 extra miles, the A-3 packs more thrust and less deadweight. First-stage fuel, made by Aerojet General Corp., is denser, so that more can be carried in the same space. It is also more powerful, producing a hotter flame (6,300 to 6,600° F.) and more thrust. The casing that restrains its pressure (800 to 900 lbs. per sq. in.) has been lightened by making it out of filament-wound glass fiber instead of metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missiles: The New, Improved Polaris | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...with a small setback Monday in its unwearying efforts to thrust service upon the Harvard community. Partisans of the Eliot House Grill descended upon Jonathan Trumbull '64, HSA food man, and harassed him to the point of stealing his food, burning Dustin M. Burke '52 in effigy, and liberating his food wagon. The vigilantes sought refuge in the Eliot House Chapel...

Author: By Max Byrd, | Title: HSA Behemoth Meets Setback | 10/31/1963 | See Source »

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