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...dispute between Red China and the Nationalists. In retaliation, Peking confiscated the property of the British Shell Company of China (which has installations in Shanghai, Canton, Tientsin, Amoy & Hankow). In London, a Tory bigwig huffed: "Palmerston would have sent a gunboat at once." But a Labor policymaker tut-tutted: "We must not be the ones to set the east aflame-or to turn that heat against the west. Patience, unending patience...
Tito was cuddling up to capitalism. Last week Belgrade's Borba, mouthpiece of Tito's Communist Party, tut-tutted portentously over the past five years of Soviet-type planning and production. "There were, for instance," reported the paper, "ladies' overcoats manufactured by the Naprijed factory that have no pockets, men's coats in several shades, blue sport shirts with black sleeves, hats with spots that could not be removed . . . Thousands of padlocks put on the market by a factory in Pola can be opened with the same key. Forks produced by the Vjeceslav Holjevac factory...
...King Tut Shuffle. Harold Ockenga was not always concerned with world evangelism. As president of his Chicago high-school fraternity, a biographer records, "he sparked a dance in the La Salle...
Applause from professional colleagues was not as loud; there have been more tut-tuts than cheers. Many British astronomers deplore Hoyle as cocky (which he is) and as disrespectful toward his elders (which he also is). Specific objections to the Cambridge theories, however, have been few. The reason, Hoyle says bluntly, is that few astronomers know enough physics and mathematics to understand what he is talking about...
Akhnaton's reform died with him because the next pharaoh, Tutankhamen ("King Tut"), preferred flattery. The statues done of him have what Drioton calls "a delicate prettiness with sometimes a touch of romantic melancholy." Since the gods were customarily carved to resemble the reigning monarch, sculptors had to make them beautiful and blue, too. It got so that animals were the only subjects artists could treat freely...