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...reversal was as much an indictment of State's loyalty judgments as it was of Service. The State Department board accepted Service's defense that he had been giving Jaffe the same kind of "background" briefing he would give any reporter, let him off with a wrist tap for "indiscretion." Said the top board in its reversal: "[Service] knew very early in his association with Jaffe that Jaffe was a very doubtful character, extremely left-wing [and Service] had a continuing line of warnings as to Jaffe's character . . . Yet, notwithstanding, we find in the [hotel] conversations...
...wearily that they come to sound like a playback on a run-down phonograph. The Bowenism is a sight more readable. Letitia, Emeritus, the story of a "backward" girl whose seduction by a prurient old teacher topples a domino-row of calamities, is managed with the firm Bowen wrist and the sure fingering of details. Yet, somehow, though Author Calisher has fingered her characters, she has not felt them, and does not make a reader feel them...
Last week the appeals court upheld the conviction and tapped Schaasberg's wrist with a $53 fine. But it looked as though the medical profession and the courts had not heard the last of Schaasberg. "We're fighting for a principle," quacked he. "If we help patients, why should we be kept from doing...
...indict me on Monday." Eberstadt whisked him to Hobe Sound, Fla. in an Air Force Constellation, where Bob Lovett took charge. "They're after me," Forrestal kept repeating. For a few days he swam and sunned himself and seemed to rally. Then one night he scratched his wrist with a razor blade. Psychiatrists ordered him to Bethesda Hospital and there, seven weeks later, he killed himself...
Olivia Holguin's legs had been useless from birth; she had a twisted wrist and a deformed hand. At 30, she seemed hopelessly crippled. But early this year, Orthopedic Surgeon S. Perry Rogers of El Paso amputated her legs and got ready to fit artificial limbs. Since El Paso has no bone bank, Dr. Rogers (with the patient's permission) kept the amputated bones in his food freezer...