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...Summerhill, the worst behaved children are always the newcomers, because, of course, they have been most repressed. New pupils often work out their repressed hate of their elders by biting, scratching, swearing interminably and "being generally anti-social." Says Mrs. Neill: "A small boy will sometimes walk in here, fix me with a glare and say, 'You stupid bitch.' But it doesn't mean anything to me. I know he's working up some hate he has." Sometimes the little fellow returns and says experimentally: 'You silly cow.'" Mrs. Neill fails to react...
Last week Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug summoned 50 bigwigs to Washington. He called on Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and the Army Air Forces' Lieut. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, to tell them of the fix the services were...
...apartments were priced at $10,000 to $13,000 apiece ($2,000 down and the rest on easy terms). Of course, well-heeled Pappy could figure on a neat profit. Next, he planned to find a single house near the Capitol and fix it up for himself. Said Pappy: "I sure like to putter around...
...week the twelve jurors found arrogant Douglas Chandler guilty of treason. The minimum sentence is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine; the maximum penalty, death. Solemn and mute, his two daughters, Laurette, 21, and Patricia, 18, watched him led away to wait for the court to fix his punishment...
...reasoning of the House seems especially lame in the consumer connection, since it is the proclaimed thesis of the Republican Congress that government intervention to fix prices is a Bad Thing. This rallying cry swept price controls and the housing program before it in recent memory, but apparently price-revision upward at government instigation is considered by the House to be sound tactics in special circumstances...