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...soldier spot a Red? The Army's way: "If a person consistently echoes the Party Line, he is probably a Communist. If he has consistently agreed with every shift and change in the Communist press, he is probably a Communist. If a person consistently supports Soviet policies, he is probably a Communist. If a person consistently practices all of the above, he is a Communist...
...other settlement poses such problems for the council. Most are minute colonies which shift with the fox population (which in turn shifts with the migrations of lemmings, on which foxes feed).* All are satellites of the Hudson's Bay Company's 42 trading posts...
...established batting stars ranged from medium hot to ice cold. Temperamental Ted Williams, helping the Red Sox off to another flying start, had trained himself to hit to left field against the opposition's Williams-shift to deep right. The Cardinals' great clutch hitter, Stan Musial, was having early-season trouble connecting with curves...
...lines, not like globe-straddling enterprisers, but like cow-pasture barnstormers. They had canceled flights without telling passengers till they appeared at the airport; they had lost their luggage; when bad weather closed in, they had set passengers down in out-of-the-way airports and left them to shift for themselves. The winter weather had been terrible. In one grim period in December, so had the plane crashes. Many a traveler was browned off by the airlines; many were scared...
...still has a horrid ring to free-enterprising airmen. But some of those who had been fighting the Chosen Instrument a few years ago have privately come around to Patterson's and Trippe's way of thinking. There have not been enough converts to cause a significant shift in thinking about U.S. air policy. But Pat Patterson is sure that the U.S. will soon have to face the hard fact that, in an international air world peopled by monopolistic Chosen Instruments, the U.S. will have to use the same kind of weapon...