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...most part they are better liked by their employees. The discipline is better, and so is the morale." They live well at home (all have maids), and better on the road. Their "manners are precise and good, while the small-time president is likely to spread a whole slice of bread." They take fewer sleeping pills and less alcohol, but "can sit down and have four drinks before dinner and never show...
These are some of the renovations and improvements that the University could have if it gave the Speech Department another full-time man and a large slice of the budget. For, if the ability to write English is worth a year's course and a corps of section men, surely the ability to speak deserves more than a slim budget and a brushoff...
...current Electrical Engineering, J. R. Anderson of Bell Telephone Laboratories tells about a new electronic device which may solve the memory problem. Its new feature is a thin slice of crystalline barium titanate. This peculiar stuff is "ferroelectric": i.e., if it is placed between two metal contacts, a considerable amount of electrical energy can be made to flow into the crystal and stay there. There is room for 2,500 dots of energy on a one-inch square of crystal...
Nevertheless, as Eisenhower strategist, Sherman Adams, said: "Cabot is in trouble." In the past, Lodge has been able to slice into the big city Democratic vote, but this time he stands a chance on not drawing on any of the powerful (there are more than 750,000) Irish votes. This is because Kennedy, himself Irish, has campaigned strenuously in solid Irish wards, and in the House has supported such wierd items as the Fogarty Bill which demanded the unification of Ireland. To offset the Irish and the Taftites, Lodge is relying heavily on Italians and independent Democrats, besides Eisenhower supporters...
...used, Wald and Krasna could not quite capture the behind the stables aroma of the rodeo. The broken down has beens who follow the circuit wistfully and drunkenly, the all night gambling and drinking that goes on to help men forget the fear, the slickers who weaken ropes and slice cinches for half a man's day money, the camp followers, the clowns with enough courage to compete but not enough talent--all these might have bolstered the story, had they been used...