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...tricky a problem, as one broker puts it, as "trying to figure out a woman's age from a sample of her handwriting." Even the brokers, who make their living by judging values and chasing newspaper sales, have never been able to work out any rule of thumb to fit all cases...
...England, Europe and North Africa-get their copies regularly. A journalism graduate of Tulane University, Paul Perret is military circulation representative for TIME-LIFE International, and his assignment, which began last October, has already taken him some 25,000 miles by car, plane, train (and, in emergency, by thumb) all over England, the NATO countries of Europe, down through Austria and Italy to French Morocco...
...governors are generally middle-roaders; they favor sound money before tax cuts, a firm foreign policy, the return of power to the states-all pillars of the Eisenhower political philosophy. At first, Utah's J. Bracken Lee, a Taftman from way back, stood out like a sore thumb in his dissent. He denounced the Administration for going "down the same road we did with the New and Fair Deal." But at the convention's end, Lee had some afterthoughts. "I guess I'm so far out of step I'll have to review my thinking...
Alphabetic Cipher. If EDC were fact, the Communists might respond to these stirring challenges. As it is, they can thumb their noses at an alphabetic cipher. Three years of delay and cavil have convinced many Europeans and more Americans that nothing so troublesome, and so lukewarmly supported, as EDC can ever work well. The case against...
...less than 81 cases of streptococcal sore throat were found among patrons of a college dining room, and were traced to the least excusable source: pus draining from the wound of a cook who had cut his thumb...