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...bravado. In an attempt to cut his own sentence, Houghton tried to turn Queen's evidence at the expense of the others, including his fiancee. Ethel Gee sounded brusque and matronly as she protested she was just a silly little fool who had been under Houghton's thumb. The Lord Chief Justice scornfully told her: "I think you acted, not out of blind infatuation, but for greed." Each was sentenced to 15 years...
...fuel. SAC's planners calculate that he is within reach of his target for 21 hours-known as "effectiveness time." In the remaining three hours, he is low on fuel and making a scheduled mid-air refueling rendezvous. During the long patrol, crewmen warm their food and eat. thumb through books and magazines, rotate taking catnaps on rubber mattresses and in sleeping bags...
...Plot. All society activity comes under the firm thumb of a balding, deceptively mild-mannered, retired businessman from Belmont. Mass., named Robert Welch. Son of a North Carolina farmer. Baptist Welch, 61, spent 25 years as an executive with Cambridge's famed candymaking James O. Welch Co. (run by his brother). After the war, Welch began to bone up on Communist literature; eventually he decided that such schemes as social security and federal income tax laws were part of a Red plot to ready the U.S. for Soviet conquest. Welch left candy for fulltime anti-Communist pamphleteering...
Director James Rorimer dispatched his curator of Greek and Roman art to Rome. Curator Dietrich von Bothmer confronted Fioravanti in Parsons' apartment. Von Bothmer produced a plaster cast of one of the warrior's hands, from which the thumb was missing. Fioravanti in turn produced a thumb of baked pottery that he had been keeping for years. Placed together, thumb and hand fitted perfectly...
...every domestic and foreign assignment he has always adhered to another of his rules of thumb: "There is always somebody smarter than you are." From the beginning he has called on the top men in the fields of law, economics and politics to aid him. This is not to say that the scope of his advice is in any way limited to consultant knowledge. The "world commuter" is a lawyer in his own right and a regular contributor to agricultural, educational, legal, economic and religious journals...