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...practices in cruder hands, just as the language of McCarthyism was Truman's language in less well-meaning voices." Charles Mee's recent Meeting at Potsdam portrays a vulpine Truman cynically deciding to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima to frighten the Soviets rather than to vanquish an already prostrate enemy...
...George Orwell. The war was to shape their words forevermore. They carried the memory of it within their hearts, Albert Camus observed afterward, "like an evil wound." Camus explained why: "It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many men, the world over, regard the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy...
...after years of dangerous work at inhospitable field stations, investigators from the U.S. and Mexico have developed techniques that promise to vanquish the vampire. With ghoulish justice, the little beast that lives by blood will be made...
...complaints name three firms, American Home Products (Anacin and Arthritis Pain Formula), Bristol-Myers (Excedrin, Excedrin P.M., Bufferin) and Sterling Drug (Bayer aspirin, Cope, Vanquish, Midol). On the basis of research by the Food and Drug Administration, the FTC says that there is no reasonable basis for claims that any of the analgesics is better than any other, or that they relieve nervous tension. There is, says the agency, "a substantial question as to the validity, sig- nificance or interpretation of tests and studies related to such claims...
...celebrated popular explicator of archaeology (Gods, Graves and Scholars), decided to abandon his "hobby." He would, he said, return to other subjects and write once more under his real name, Kurt W. Marek. Happily, the German-born journalist and critic, after allowing Marek a couple of bylines, could not vanquish Ceram entirely. In The First American, Ceram/Marek is back in his old haunts, providing once more a loving, readable, penetrating excavation of antiquity, this time in the New World, where he has settled. The Old World's overlay of monuments and documents often makes archaeology a function of history...