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...armed forces out of such nonmilitary activities as cake-baking, dry cleaning and coffee-roasting. The section was tacked on to the bill by members of the House and Senate whose districts vare graced with such federal activities, e.g., Leverett Saltonstall. the Senate G.O.P. whip, who was protecting the rope-twisting installation at the Charlestown, Mass, navy yard. President Eisenhower had a hard label for the Capitol Hill handiwork: "An unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive...
...climbers negotiated an ice-filled "funnel," the snow mass whispered 700 ft. above them. Tony Woodfield glanced up and saw a mass of powdery snow break downward. "I yelled 'Avalanche!' and dug my ax into the ice and hung on." The avalanche thundered down. The rope tying Woodfield to the others tightened painfully, then broke, leaving him safe while his friends were swept 1,000 ft. down the mountain. Peter Smith, 13, of Paoli, Pa., managed to leap to one side, and was saved. "When it passed, I unwound the rope, which had slid around my neck, almost...
Plenty of Rope. Grant is first to admit that no two men are alike, even in "I-3ness." But the studies to date show that an I-2 or I-3 is likely to get into trouble: "He is relatively immature. And he's imperturbable. He doesn't care what others think of him, and before long the others lock him up. He doesn't care even then. An I-4 in civilian life doesn't have too much trouble. He gets sore at the boss, swears at him and quits, and is all right again...
...Hollywood last year, Dame Edith's life has not been the same. Intrigued by the incongruity of the two ladies, the world's press thenceforth gleefully linked their names on the least pretext. Last week, Dame Edith was asked about Marilyn again, reached the end of her rope, cried: "If I hear that young woman's name again I shall shriek! Being a polite and, I hope, chivalrous woman, I said to her . . . that I hoped if she came to London she would . . . have tea with me. That is all there was to it . . . but since then...
...account for their sanguinary crimes, for their repulsive betrayal" (Marshal Bulganin). "The time will come when the people of Yugoslavia will avenge themselves and get rid of Tito's clique" (Khrushchev). "History will give Tito the choice of poison, as was Hitler's case, or the rope, as was Mussolini's case" (Literary Gazette...