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...fair grounds one day I parked next to the gate. When I returned, the ticket taker told me he had to abandon his post to keep people from crawling all over "your beautiful car." In fact, so many people fondled the car I figure I'll be able to sell it to Intelligence -the fingerprints of half the Communists in East Germany must...
...nature" of the scientists, the "laws of history" of the Marxists and Spenglerians, the "economic" and man-made laws worshiped by most modern historians, Western Man must submit once more to the Law of God. "In appealing to the Law of God, a human soul has to abandon certainty in order to embrace Hope and Fear . . . A human soul is apt to find in this what it brings to it . . . The Law of God is freedom itself, under a more illuminating name...
Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. '55, Council president, last night expressed his regret over a statement made on Monday by Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library. Metcalf had announced his plans to abandon last spring's experiment of keeping Lamont open on Sundays and on weekday evenings until midnight...
...Force C46 had been airborne only a few minutes when smoke began to stream from one of the engines. Fire-extinguishing procedure did no good, and Captain Thomas E. Wilson decided to abandon the plane. "MAYDAY," the distress call, went out, "MAYDAY-MAYDAY-MAYDAY...
When up against an obviously superior practitioner of Globemanship, an audacious ploy, one best used by stay-at-homes of an intellectual appearance, is to abandon all pretense about having been to Europe and, indeed, to disclaim all knowledge of and interest in The Continent. The professional Inpatriate will wear a look of complete boredom while Europe is the topic, being careful, of course, not to let his expression be accurately interpreted as one of ignorance. Since, however, even people who have been to Europe are usually bored when others talks about it, the Inpatriate should occasionally interject a question...