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This answer was neither flippant nor unusual. It points to an Administration attitude which is as dangerous as it is secretive. Through occasional, indefinite government releases, the American knows vaguely of a crisis, but its extent or imminence have been carefully withheld from him. No wonder then that he is apathetic to atomic threats...
Lady Mary Catherine was the last of her branch of an 800-year-old line, and after she died last winter her collection went up for auction. By common consent most big dealers withheld their bids, and when the auctioneer's hammer fell for the last time, Detroit owned Sassetta's prized Agony for a bargain $25,000. The institute could hardly believe its good luck at bringing together three pictures that had been separated for centuries. Said Assistant Director Paul L. Grigaut: "Both English and American dealers were very cricket about it. Our biggest trouble was getting...
Secure Smuggling. When the Communists withheld their orders for a couple of months last winter, Macao almost skidded into bankruptcy. Portugal is pledged to enforce the U.N. embargo on strategic materials entering Red China, but the colony of Macao lives in such absolute dependence (even for food and water) on the Communist mainland that it considers it a question of smuggle...
...teacher's oath. If enough people show stamina, the politicians will look elsewhere for their laurels. Why should we in the North not show the backbone of the teachers in California who refused to take the oath? Is not Boston the home of the original tea party? Name withheld by request
...Princetonian did learn, however, that Princeton voted against the NCAA television plan this year along with Harvard. Officials who asked that their names be withheld stated that the negative vote was because it was felt the "limited TV plan was against anti-trust laws...