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...bearing and his demeanor during the recent and current debacles of the summit blowup and the furor in Japan recall to many a U.S. heart, I am sure, a sentiment that Confucius approvingly ascribes to his pupil Tseng Ts'an: "In a moment of crisis he remains unshaken: Is such a man a Great...
...Institution, he offended a department of meteorology at New York University with the breezy claim that he could forecast more accurately than the local U.S. weatherman. At Minnesota he outraged College of Education colleagues in 1957 by blithely asserting that they had replaced the three Rs with "the three Ts-typing, tap dancing and tomfoolery." Once he thrust his martini glass at Minneapolis Symphony Conductor Antal Dorati and said: "Tony, we can build a machine that can compose music." Retorted Dorati: "Well, then you'd better build a machine that can listen...
Penn State's amazing Nittany Lions ran away with the team title, scoring 46 1/2 points to runner-up Maryland's 29. Boston University used ts field event strength to capture third place with 22 points, and defending champion Villanova took fourth Manhattan, Penn, New York University, Tufts, Harvard, and Yale rounded...
Home with them to their sees the new cardinals carried something besides their new red hats and rings. Each received a book of dos and don'ts for cardinals. Items: a cardinal's residence must be decorously furnished and must have an ample entrance, a throne room decorated with an oil painting of the reigning pontiff, a reception room and a chapel. Each cardinal must have a private means of transport, and should avoid public carriers such as streetcars, buses and taxis. He must not drive himself. If he goes out for a walk, he must be accompanied...
...have any color car you want," Henry Ford used to say, "so long as it's black." The father of modern mass production not only stuck to a few colors, but turned out more than 15 million model Ts over 19 years with hardly a change. Since then the U.S. has changed, and with it the idea of mass production. Today manufacturers not only change their models frequently, but turn out everything from electric irons to autos in a bewildering variety of models and colors. Many manufacturers are now beginning to wonder whether they are doing the consumer...