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...modishly coiffed, was not about to leave Congress, where she had become a carping critic of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. When her intention to run again became clear, Andy Knutson backed away from his original ultimatum, said Coya could stay in Congress if only she would get rid of her handsome executive secretary. Bill Kjeldahl, 30. Said Andy: "The decisions made in Coya's office are not hers, but Kjeldahl's." But Coya Knutson was having none of that, either. Kjeldahl would stay, cried she. Her life was her own-and she aimed to live...
Normalize to Neutralize. Careful not to let his tongue outrace his ambition, Nasser added prudently: "The Arab people intend to get rid of every foreign domination. They believe in non-alignment." He had need of a little help, as well as loud hurrahs, from the Russians. His arms debts (including those he inherited by absorbing Syria) were strapping him: not only is his cotton crop mortgaged to Russia for years, but Russia is dumping Egyptian cotton elsewhere at lower prices, thus debasing its value...
...Washington, Immigration Commissioner Joseph M. Swing insisted that the service has to use force sometimes to get rid of "nogoodniks." Most of the 7,000 aliens the U.S. deports each year are allowed time to pack up and say their farewells, said Swing, but "there is about 3% of these nogoodniks" who keep on stalling in the courts. Leathery West Pointer Swing (classmate: Dwight Eisenhower) vowed to deport Staller Heikkila "if it takes from now until I get kicked...
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY ARE RIGHT IN FEARING THAT A STRONG SECTARIAN TREND WOULD ENCHROACH ON THEIR FREEDOM. The sectarianism in Memorial Church is but a symptom of something much deeper and more widespread. To get rid of it there and have it continue vigorous among Harvard men would be like clipping a few inches off the whiskers of a tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact. And the temper of the sectarian tiger is anything but wholesome now on account of the fear-inspired gloom and emotionalism of current theology...
...calcium and strontium. So when there is strontium around, it picks that up too-and deposits it in the bones where the radioactive forms can do the most harm.* When doctors try to flush strontium out of the system, the body is similarly undiscriminating: it is likely to get rid of too much calcium at the same time...