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...centuries both friends & enemies of the Vatican have stood in awe of its facilities for collecting information from the remotest corners of the world. Although this reputation often exceeded the facts, Vatican intelligence about church affairs has rarely lagged as far behind events as its information on the Iron Curtain countries does today. It is a measure of the effectiveness of Communist secrecy that Vatican diplomatists have had to rely heavily on the newspapers to get the facts about the Communist campaign against the church in Eastern Europe. And most of what they read in the newspapers is what...
Every regimental history is doomed, by nature, to be at best partly uninteresting to the average reader, at worst wholly uninteresting even to members of the regiment concerned. But able Author Fergusson has done all that can be done to explain the Black Watch to the remotest commuter without ever failing in his duty as scrupulous recorder. The skirl of the Black Watch pipes, the pawky character of its men, and the family feeling that pervades and binds them-all these do much to raise The Black Watch above the level of mere soldierly documentation...
...among scientists of different countries, or even of different laboratories, have been reinforced. Criteria for the granting of scholarships and fellowships by the government become more forbidding every year. And the grounds on which scientists are denied employment in any department of the government have expanded to include the remotest connections with heterodox political movements...
...week before the Korean invasion I resigned in disillusionment as a civilian employee of the military establishment, after watching part of the job (which had not the remotest combat significance) that I, a woman, once did alone, divided among a lieutenant colonel, a major, a captain and an additional civilian...
...smart to attend lectures, unless they have not the remotest connection with one's subject . . . No smartie has ever heard of Science...