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...into the hands of busy practitioners any and all types of good and bad drugs and devices, and let them learn, at the expense and peril of their patients, whether they are any help. With over 200,000 physicians and their patients as potential prey, the result would be untold harm...
...Leverett Towers constitute Harvard's contribution to low-cost housing: one thousand windows, precisely the same: one thousand radiators, precisely the same (no fireplaces); one thousand cheap (and ugly) linoleum floors--and untold millions of utilitarian cinder blocks, many of them unpainted. Every morning when I wake up and touch my ceiling (I do not have to stand on tip toes to do so) I am reminded of how much like insects all of us "Towerites" are: those of us with rooms facing east are awakened by the heat and light of the sun shining through our utilitarian windows...
...Soviet U.N. mission headquarters itself, 200 New York cops formed a ring around the block, barricaded the corners. In the street, police cars and motor bikes purred; cars loaded with weapons stood by, and the mounted police clip-clopped steadily about, while untold numbers of plainclothesmen mingled in the restive crowds on the perimeter. On Khrushchev's first night in town, knots of Hungarian and Polish refugees gathered with banners that screamed KHRUSHCHEV IS A MURDERER, KHRUSHCHEV, GO HOME, and handed out pamphlets with such arresting titles as Nikita, Scat, You Dirty Aggressor, You Bloodstained Butcher, You Bestial Executioner...
...have a higher appreciation of an athlete's dignity ... We cannot wish victory to any particular team or athlete. Therefore, may the best man win. This does not prevent us, however, from expressing our fervent wish that these days' contests will benefit you all and afford you untold advantages...
...teeth, and Mrs. Henderson, who still thinks that he is her husband but insane. As Roger's end shows. Author Glaskin's powers of invention are unfortunately limited and his writing is graceless. What recommends the book is chiefly its intriguing central idea, which suggests a hitherto untold Tale of Hoffmann as it might have been rendered by Thorne Smith...