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Politics around the Cooper household was all-pervading, absorbed by osmosis from infancy, and Judge Cooper inculcated his children with an iron code of honor and a sense of unaffected friendliness for less fortunate neighbors. Often, when he sat down to a heaping dinner, the judge would dispatch one of the boys to a back-alley neighbor with a tray of food from his own table...
...Code name of 1952 H-bomb explosion...
...Prime Minister and pre pare himself for a possible general election either this fall or next spring. To defer his retirement until the very eve of an election and then let Eden bear the brunt of possible defeat would be a serious affront to Churchill's own rigid code of loyalty. For the best interests of all concerned, it was agreed that retirement should come on or about July 15. Yet, as the moment for quitting drew near last week, the old man still seemed loth to take the step...
...small silver cup, guaranteed to be worth no more than $32.90, from a Southern California amateur athletic group. It was a substitute for a $300 sterling silver bowl-the Roger Bannister Trophy-which he could have received only in defiance of British rules-part of an international amateur code-forbidding athletes to accept gifts worth more than ?12 ($33.60). Before flying off home, Bannister revealed a final secret about I've Got a Secret. Even if he had been permitted to appear on the show, he wouldn't have gone through with it, he said. The sponsor...
...year-old short-story writer named Frank Rooney, it is among the year's best first novels-until it bogs down in psychological probings. Author Rooney's two basic themes: 1) parents v. children; 2) the lost and/or silent generation in search of a code to live...