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Certainly piquant is the tile of the P. B. H. Conference on a Government Career. But there will be nothing intangible about the round table discussion, as Administration leaders take time out to explain their problems. Nor will the effort vanish with winter's last nasty days; already a permanent bureau of information on the possibilities of a Capitol Hill career is promised...
...also proud of having in its ancient vicinity one of Florida's newest and most successful tourist-getters: the big Marineland aquarium recently built 18 miles to the south of it. It is fond of broadcasting superlatives about Marineland's two tanks (of steel, concrete, tile, brick and cement), the biggest and deepest aquarium tanks in the world, the only aquarium cleaned by divers with vacuum cleaners, the only one where some animals are fed under water by hand, the only one where penguins can be seen swimming under water. The Marineland tanks have 200 glass portholes through...
Bermuda, lying carelessly like a torn green leaf on a sunswept turquoise tile, is a warm and romantic group of islands where many a U. S. toiler escapes from traffic lights, Klaxons and carbon monoxide to bicycles and horse-drawn buggies. Bermuda is also the place where Governor Lieut. General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard's feet hurt...
...reprinting in 22 facsimile volumes (price $88) a complete file of Defoe's Review, a weekly, biweekly and triweekly newspaper of opinion which he wrote singlehanded between 1704 and 1713. Before becoming a newspaperman at 45, Defoe had been a butcher, hosiery factor, wine importer, government lottery agent, tile manufacturer, South Sea speculator, bankrupt and convict. In 1703 he spent three days in the stocks (see cut) for publishing an annoying political pamphlet. Between jail terms he plumped mightily for freedom of the press, took secret cash handouts from ministers of all parties, acted as informer to governments...
...thumbscrewed and burned its subjects without even a semblance of justice (there is no recorded case of not guilty under the Inquisition) for refusing to swear undivided allegiance ; how Edward I expelled the Jews from England in 1290, taking their houses, their money, some times (accidentally) their lives. For tile rest, Professor Coulton himself describes the book as a scaffolding by which young students may climb to chisel details on the monument of knowledge. The analogy is poor. No scaffolding was ever built so meticulously from such solid materials...