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That once elegant and utile implement, the toothpick, passes from the scene in an ever-widening social circle. The massive, rounded hardwood utensil with which modern hostesses and bartenders spear canapes and Martini olives was never intended to explore dental apertures, although it might serve for a murder weapon in a pinch. Let Mr. Wenner, the perfectionist, find a modern name for this modern thing. But I warn him that "skewerette" is barred...
Then comes the beheading, performed with ceremony. The implement used is a bamboo knife. Small children are spared and adopted, in the hope that they will tell the names of the unidentified dead...
...budget message last fall the President declared that there is a need for "an increasing number of people who have advanced education and training." He added that a program of federal scholarship aid "is the logical and practical answer," and asked for an appropriation of 20 million dollars to implement the plan...
...advantage of such a Cabinet post would be to "implement the advances of science into world politics, immediately. Perhaps preventing total war, he said...
...other suggestions: that the Social Relations Department should not accept invalid conclusions; that press distortion be avoided by clear writing. One might remark that this is a little like being against sin. In any case these suggestions call for policies which should show some experience in trying to implement specific plans. If the CRIMSON would maintain its generally advanced level of journalism its editors would do well to investigate first what that experience has been. Sheldon H. Edelstein Teaching Fellow in Social Relations...