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...There is, of course, the process of impeachment," the Tribune noted thoughtfully, testing a scalpel on its horny thumb. It thought that Truman's "present offers to send hundreds of thousands of American boys to their deaths in Europe . . . fall easily within the framework of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' " But the Trib was afraid that "impeachment, if started today, would fail for lack of Democratic votes." On the whole, it preferred a different course anyhow...
Ever since the early 18th Century the East German cathedral town of Meissen (pop. 48,000) has been famed for fine china. Little damaged during World War II, it went on, under the Russian thumb, producing traditional luxury ware, even though a single Meissen cup cost upwards of 50 East marks-more than the average weekly salary of an East German workman. Last week Meissen was busy reorienting itself to the new order in East Germany. In place of its world-famed baroque "Red Dragon," "Green Ivy" and "Onion" (blue & white) patterns, it was setting out to shift "without artistic...
...reasons hard to fathom, Compiler Norman Denny has not attempted to thumb out The Yellow Book's plums for this anthology, preferring to collect what he calls "a fair summary" of the original 13 volumes. If this is indeed a fair summary, it is pretty hard to see why Victorians found The Yellow Book so shocking that at least one plea was made for its suppression by Parliament. The boys were more to be pitied than censored...
...Tired Thumb. In Central Falls, R.I., a young woman explained why she had turned in a false alarm: she was on a country road, with no prospect of getting a lift home, figured the fire department would give her a ride...
...equal intelligence and similar economic backgrounds. With the assistance of doctors and psychologists, they subjected the boys to physical examinations, studied their homes and school records, questioned parents and teachers, gave their subjects batteries of tests. By the end of their study they had produced no rule-of-thumb cures, but they had worked out an impressive statistical blueprint for spotting danger signals...