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...Every Greek expects to be cheated," and Author Lee was mildly embarrassed as his Greek friends checked the scales in grocery shops and counted and recounted their eggs. At home, the mistress of the house lays traps for her servants: "Pencil shavings in a corner, or under a table. Aha! The servant has not cleaned! The failure to clean, despite the Greek passion for surface cleanliness, is not the issue; it is the desire to know whether the servant has cleaned...
Seizures & Censors. Indonesian censors laid a heavy pencil on outgoing news. All Dutch publications, films and news agencies were banned. In Djakarta, Indonesian papers reported that Indonesian passengers and crewmen had forcibly prevented Dutch captains from diverting Dutch-owned ships into "neutral ports." The Indonesian government ordered its 5,000 nationals in The Netherlands to leave at once. In Paris, Foreign Minister Subandrio declared that a complete break in Indonesian-Dutch diplomatic relations was "only a matter of time...
...SALES SLUMP, because of price war among the ballpoints, is causing Eversharp Inc. to sell its pen and pencil divisions, concentrate on safer safety razors and blades. Ever-sharp board has approved sale to Parker Pen Co., and Parker will probably agree, as it is eager to add Eversharp's foreign business to its own burgeoning overseas operation...
...that result in speech. Like most of the brain lying near the surface, Broca's area gets its blood supply from one of the countless branches of the middle cerebral artery. The particular branch supplying Broca's area is not much thicker than the lead in a pencil, and if in Ike's case this was already narrowed by arteriosclerosis, a tiny clot would be enough to shut down the flow. That a bigger artery branch was not involved was shown by Ike's keeping full command of functions controlled by adjacent brain areas...
...Institute the only tools a scholar needs are his pencil and paper, a quiet place of study, and the opportunity to exchange ideas with men who are at a similar level of scholarship. The emphasis is different depending on the individual member. For some, the Institute affords a few years' freedom from the tedious requirements of class schedules, of conferences for students, and of faculty meetings. For others, the Institute is a place where the young, post-doctoral student may further his knowledge through association with the professors and fellow members of the academic community...