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What with all the diversion (and very good business), Bangkok's colony of Westerners has doubled since prewar days, new numbers 1,200, including 400 Americans. Foreigners love Siam. Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was entranced until he met with a painful accident. A doctor explained that his swollen cheek was caused by a poisonous moth. "How," cried Hirschfeld, "can I tell people at home I was bitten by a moth...
...beneath the Yard while working on a water main. He kept the secret to himself, although he realized there was little chance of buying the property and setting up oil wells in the Yard. After six months he had another chance to work on the water pipe lines and cheek his suspicion of oil. He discovered oil again, leaking from a supply can this time. The worker, who wants to remain anonymous, is still around the College, but he's given up all dreams...
...Sermon on the Mount, with its advice not to resist evil, to turn the other cheek and to love one's enemies, according to Father Messineo, was meant for individuals only, not collective groups. "It is the inalienable right of a collectivity to defend its integrity and existence against unjust aggression . . . The citizen has the duty to render the society to which he belongs . . . the indispensable service of picking up arms and fighting to the utmost of his fully exploited capabilities in defense of his community menaced by unjust aggression." Conscientious objectors, he warned, "are guilty of Lucifer-like...
...Devil's Disciple. Shaw's tongue-in-cheek, neck-in-noose melodramatics of the American Revolution, rising to a loud barrage of wit (TIME...
...purpose of the ten days of orientation is to prepare the students for what is to come in Europe and help them interpret what they see. In Holland, the students were warned last summer, people do not dance cheek to check. Some students were unduly surprised to find that some Europeans hated the Marshall Plan. In Italy, students were dismayed to find that because of the American reputation for cleanliness, the water was always shut off where they went...