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Pastoral Scenes. British businessmen generally disapproved of Hailsham's waspish outburst, with its anti-American overtones. Hailsham thought that scientists should "still owe some responsibility" to the country where they were born and educated, rather than "make up for the deficiencies of the American high schools-to which, incidentally, they condemn their own offspring if they stay away too long." Businessmen are beginning to realize that U.S. recruiting is only part of the problem, and that there is a need for British business to do more about facilities, opportunities and pay. So far, however, the most spectacular program...
Raymond A. Sokolov, Jr.'s waspish review in Friday's CRIMSON accused the Brattle Theatre of failing to advertise the showing of Dan Drasin's Sunday. The Brattle did in fact advertise Sunday in ads in the CRIMSON (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday), the Globe, the Herald and Traveler, the Record-American, the Christian Science Monitor (Thursday-Friday-Saturday), and on WCRB. In addition, the Brattle sent out special news releases on Sunday which were printed by the Globe (in entirety) and the Herald (in part...
...argumentative powers made him enormously influential in the closed-door conferences that precede the court's decisions. Another great jurist. Learned Hand, once called him "the most important single figure in our whole judicial system." Although he could be a profoundly kind and considerate man. Frankfurter had a waspish streak of intellectual impatience, and he sometimes jabbed lawyers, and even fellow Justices, with sharp-edged remarks or questions designed to make them get to the point. But no one could doubt his deep devotion to the law. A Harvard colleague once said to him chidingly: "You take law awfully...
...Ceylon's Finance Minister, who also happens to be Mrs. Bandaranaike's nephew, that the U.S. President is specifically empowered to suspend aid to any country that has seized U.S. property without providing compensation in six months. The Prime Minister's response was to draft a waspish letter to the ambassador, retorting that "the best form of foreign aid the U.S. can give to small countries is to abstain from interfering in their affairs...
...Such waspish criticism is routine for wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 135 Ibs.) Harold Royce Gross, 62, seven-term Republican Congressman from Iowa's farm-rich Third District. Day after day, year after year, Gross uses the crisp voice of a onetime Des Moines and Waterloo radio newscaster to scold his colleagues about their leisurely ways, question any and all spending bills, and push what he considers his lonely fight "to save this country from national bankruptcy." He is a nitpicker and a pest. He detests Washington's social life ("I've never worn a monkey suit...