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...adoption of a code of ethics, while harmless, will do but little good. Any man who must look up his code of ethics to find out what is proper or improper for him to do is too innocent to be around Washington." As a matter of fact, Sawyer concluded heavily, if Senators really want to study reprehensible practices in Government, they might start in with congressional committees and their questions, which keep Government officials up late of nights, getting the answers together...
...sentimentalist that he marries her. The film all but smothers the idea with plot complications, cooking up elaborate reasons for the marriage-in name only-to come first, so that the pair can pursue their dalliance and yet stay strictly honorable under the technical rules of the cinema code. Irrelevantly, one of the film's best moments comes in a movie-house sequence showing glimpses of Greta Garbo in long's A Woman of Affairs...
...Code Words. If all this works out (there may be unforeseen difficulties), it is good news for those patients who are helped by cortisone. Perhaps even more promising is another aspect of the Syntex accomplishment. The steroid hormones are, in effect, "code words" which help to control the cells of the body. They are all very similar, built around the same nucleus, but the slightest difference (such as the shift of an oxygen atom from one carbon atom to another) changes their effect. Medical researchers would like to try hundreds of steroids to see what each can do to make...
Some Cheap Hotel. A lanky, crew-cut 16, well-born Holden Caulfield is sure all the world is out of step but him. His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier's. Flunking four subjects out of five, he has just been fired from his fourth school...
Columbus. Urged on by Althea, he finally decided to assault New York by way of France, which he had loved in his code-clerk days. When they had saved up $125, they took...