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...arms; the U.S. did not agree with Britain that Egypt's Premier Nasser was a menace. The President saw no need for "a firmer line": "I would have to say 'firmer line' with respect to what, where, when . . . [The Middle East problem] is like a stack of jackstraws. Every time you touch one, you are very apt to move the whole crowd, and equilibrium is, to a certain extent, destroyed. That is what we don't want." Asked if he would order "those Marines that were sent over to the Mediterranean" into war without the consent...
...community of learning." Durn tootin'. It's their sneaky way of packing the tutors and other helpful types in so close you can't breathe. The teacher-student ratio around here is 1 to 7, and the way to milk the most out of the ratio is to stack tutors and students in the same entries, like wildcats in a laundry bag. People think I run up and down stairs because I'm busy. Busy, hell. My tutor lives between me and the bottom of the stairs. Every time he catches me on the stairs it ruins...
...complaint from the German Skating Federation, accusing Ronnie Robertson of demanding more than legal expense money for his European exhibitions this winter, threw his second-place victory into doubt. As vocal as any of "the skating mothers," Ronnie's father. Naval Architect Albert R. Robertson, blew his stack: "It's politics, stinking politics." Said Ronnie's coach, Gus Lussi: "The whole thing is fishy, and I think it started in this country, not abroad...
...Berkeley, Calif., but they could be detected only indirectly by a complicated electronic method (TIME, Oct. 31). Scientists wanted to "see" them by one of the more direct methods that they use to make subatomic particles visible. So the Berkeley scientists shot antiprotons from their great machine into a stack of photographic films. Their hope was that they would find microscopic tracks in the films that could be identified as the work of an antiproton...
...early as 1947, he was concerned with the architectural planning of Lamont and with selection of books. An undergraduate library within a university was then unique; there were no models to copy. Consequently, a good part of the library today can be traced to McNiff's influence--the open stack system, the variety of comfortable study spaces, and the numerous stalls...