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...weeks, two more foolish monkeys were caught-one by following strategically placed bits of orange peel straight into the mouth of a zoo keeper's sack-but the three remaining holdouts had grown shrewder than ever. In the end, it was only the perversity of fate and their common simianity that brought them down. One day last week, unused to the perils that abound in freedom, one of the monkeys was hit by a passing automobile. As he lay in the road, stunned but unhurt, a lurking keeper took him captive...
...machine-operated scoring has on occasion tempted students to "beat the system" through the marking of more that one of the numbered answers. Such offenders fall into categories. The first, or "naive" group, will blacken all five of the answer spaces. The second type, a little shrewder, will darken one of the blanks, while placing tiny dots, which will register as correct on the machine, in one or two of the other four' spaces...
Compared to shrewder and more flexible Reds like Yugoslavia's Tito or Italy's Togliatti, Ulbricht is a small and limited man. But by the beginning of World War II, years of internal fratricide, Russian purges and Nazi scythe-swinging had cleaned German Communism of its commanding figures, and left only what Nikolai Bukharin once called a band of "obedient dunces." To Moscow, Walter Ulbricht seemed the safest choice. He was ordered to Moscow for most of the war years to prepare for the day when the Red flag would be raised over Berlin...
...rally. Anti-Catholic literature was passed out. The Rev. Carl Mclntire, a deposed minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., now pastor of his own "Bible Presbyterian Church" of Collingswood, N.J., said: "Communism is an enemy; we are all against it. But we have another enemy too, older, shrewder. It is Roman Catholicism and its bid for world power. In the U.S., it is Spellmanism...
...moving into the Observer, Nicholson made even a shrewder deal, took over operating control without having to buy the paper. The owners agreed to 1) make him undisputed boss, 2) pay him $50,000 a year, 3) sell him 5% to 10% of the paper's stock at a "fair" price. The deal was sealed so secretly that not even Observer editors knew it until they were handed the story to run. If they had any Tarheel resentment at an outlander moving in, they covered it with Southern tactfulness: "Mr. Nicholson," said the Observer story, "was born in Richmond...