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...seldom challenged. For one thing, the state's citizens have no feeling of being bossed, for Biltz not only keeps out of print, but approves "safe" candidates of either party and seldom minds which wins. For another, even Norman Biltz's critics find him hard to resist, particularly if he woos them, amid squads of millionaires, at one of his mountaintop barbecues...
...effect their repatriation." If the neutral nations do their job well (and it is up to them to do it: the U.N. Command will no longer have any power or responsibility in the matter), reluctant prisoners will be able to sweat out four to six months of further imprisonment, resist the blandishments (or implied threats) of their Red compatriots, and then be free men. Though the Communists might deny forever that they had accepted the principle of voluntary repatriation, the simple truth was that they...
GREECE was getting ready to swap tobacco for Polish coal; ITALY could not resist Bulgaria's bid for lemons. JAPAN industrialists, noting that U.S. coal and iron ore costs them more than twice as much as the nearer but unavailable supplies ofo the Red mainland, bluntly say: "There is no hope for the Japanese economy until trade can be resumed with China...
Imaginary Angria. As Mrs. Gaskell surveyed the ruin of the Brontës-Charlotte, Emily and Anne destroyed by consumption, their brother Branwell wrecked by opium and liquor-she could hardly resist making their father the villain of her story. In her version, Parson Brontë emerged as a man of intellectual vanity and eccentricity, who would fire his pistol in the air when annoyed with his family, who once sawed up all the chairs in his wife's bedroom while the poor woman lay in bed in one of her confinements. But to Biographer Lane, the real villains...
...first place, Mr. Hall was not fired, as you seem to imply. A former business man, he simply found an attractive offer from a New Haven firm hard to resist. Ivy League Athletic Directors have never been notoriously high-paid...