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Myra is not hunting either for a ring or parental approval. She is a natural creature of obedience, stoic when the time comes to pin on the stigmatic yellow badge. She accepts Cassidy's infant foster daughter, his dull and his dangerous cronies, his personal instability as readily as her father's orthodox wisdom. When she finally goes to bed with Cassidy, it is with the air of "This, too, shall pass." For all that, Myra is not a wooden figure. She is at least as believable in her resignation as is Eva in her chin-up tenacity...
...pilot falls, the increasing pressure compresses the metal diaphragm of the barometer. When the barometer records a pressure normal to 10,000 feet (the altitude was considerably higher in Rankin's case, because of the barometric turbulence of the storm), a strong spring releases the ripcord pin and the chute opens...
Visiting Time. Both the vague expectancies of those who saw nothing else to pin their hopes on and the exaggerated fears of Europeans who thought that they would not be allowed to settle their own destinies rested on a false premise. The U.S. has no desire and no intention of sitting down with Khrushchev in a new Yalta on the Potomac, disposing of one crisis after another in a grand "world settlement." The U.S. is fully aware that if it did so, it would only alienate its most valued friends; furthermore, anything negotiated would also require U.S. Senate approval. Such...
...pointedly omitted previous hints that this might mean a tax cut. Said he: "We should be starting to pay off our [$284 billion] debt . . . Congress itself expects us to get in the business of paying off some of these great obligations, and I think we should." ¶ Pinned an oakleaf cluster, in lieu of a third Distinguished Service Medal, on the chest of retiring General Maxwell D. Taylor. Cracked Ike, as he searched for a place to pin the last award on the much decorated tunic of his wartime comrade: "There's not much room left, is there...
Brief & Bold. Will Strunk wrote a book ("The little book," he liked to say) called The Elements of Style-43 privately printed pages that constituted his magnificent attempt to prune the jungle of English rhetoric and replant it on the head of a pin. Until White recently got hold of one of the Cornell library's two surviving copies, he had not laid eyes on the book in 38 years. Now, thanks to White, the supply has been replenished (Macmillan; $2.50) with a fond testimonial by White: "From every page there peers out at me the puckish face...