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Again, some Cambridge radicals smelled a trap, and began circulating the word that the planned action might not be the smartest in the world. Nevertheless, by curfew time about 150 people had gathered on the Common and trash bonfires were burning brightly...
...traditional university. I would propose that the new university be a three-year college with its freshman class drawn from the freshman classes of other universities. With this kind of policy, the tables will turn: Harvard and M.I.T. will have to implement large-scale change just to retain their smartest freshmen...
...corollary lesson is that crime pays-or, to quote Mario Puzo quoting Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." When Puzo gets around to updating Balzac's ever so slight overstatement, he has the youngest and smartest son of the oldest and smartest New York Mafia boss tell his lank Yankee bride: "In my history course at Dartmouth we did some background on all the Presidents and they had fathers and grandfathers who were lucky they didn't get hanged...
Part of a publicity campaign by the city's Legal Aid Society, the slogans warn the poor-most of them uneducated Negroes-against some common forms of exploitation. They also serve as a warning to the exploiters. Under a Legal Aid Society program, some of the smartest young lawyers in Atlanta's top firms are taking their Saturdays and other days off to defend the poor...
With its glamorless name and ungraceful looks, the Coot should be about as seductive to car buyers as two steel tubs hung between four large tires -which is just what it is. It is also the smartest thing on wheels to a growing corps of Coot fanciers. They drive it through mud, up mountains, across lakes and into woods, all the places conventional vehicles cannot roll. They use it to hunt, fish, mend fences, find stranded sheep and haul fertilizer. The vehicle is also put into service by federal forest rangers and by a dozen law enforcement agencies for search...