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Cream. Left-wingers, and others chronically suspicious of big profits, no matter how made, would doubtless see iniquity in the Texas Eastern deal. Others would see it as a classic case of venture capitalism in which everybody stood to make a profit...
...Great People." Is that exalted attitude a preface to dictatorial tenden cies? Perhaps; but De Gaulle understands the danger of dictatorship well. He has said: "What is dictatorship? Doubtless its first steps may seem attractive. Amid the enthusiasm of some and the resignation of others, amid the rigor of the order which it imposes and with the help of spectacular staging and one-way propaganda, dictatorship can at first assume a dynamic aspect which contrasts agreeably with the anarchy which preceded it. But it is the fate of dictatorship to exaggerate. . . . The nation becomes a machine which the master progressively...
Cold Pistol Barrel. The Sachsenhausen prisoners, ranged in two rows in a playpen-like dock, made no attempt to deny their crimes. Some of them, doubtless under Russian influence, talked like the accused in 1937 purge trials. "I got into this net of criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the camp second-in-command. (In one day, Hoehn had hanged, gassed and shot 510 prisoners in petulance over a superior's rebuke.) "I got so tangled in its strands, I couldn't go back. At the mere thought I could feel the cold barrel of a pistol...
Ducey commented that in spite of the heavy Radcliffe protest over seating arrangements, it was only in a few overcrowded classes that the situation was really acute. "Some monitors had already met the problem themselves," he said, adding that the others "were pretty able fellows" and would doubtless find the ladies suitable seats...
...five; or the spot on the wall which gets the room painted, at a cost resented whether high or low. All typical of the popular gripes, they are usually followed by charges of padding, graft, mismanagement and outright corruption. A closer study points to a different picture. The chair doubtless required several hours work by a skilled carpenter in addition o the time expended in transportation form the House or office to the maintenance building--and this hardly touches the cost of materials. The piano was probably moved as a result of a last minute call--on overtime--while even...