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Child psychologists believe that the British tendency to mistreat their young may be connected with traditional British reserve. Said one specialist: "Many parents think it soppy and embarrassing to show affection. To cover up their embarrassment they become extra strict and demanding, even to the point of mental, if not physical, cruelty...
Never in anyone's memory had such strict security measures been clapped on a criminal trial at the Old Bailey in peacetime. Hordes of police cordoned off the sidewalk outside, allowed no one near the courtroom. When the trial began, Lord Chief Justice Lord Parker ordered the doors locked, the windows shuttered. In the dock was George Blake, 38, a British Foreign Service official, who had confessed that for 9½ years he had fed Moscow a steady flow of Britain's closest secrets...
...their tremendous manpower." A.H.S. bombards its clients with a monthly mailing of 25,000 "technical advisories," and whenever a customer has an anniversary or is promoted, he gets a personal note from his A.H.S. salesman or even from McGaw himself. A stickler for the personal letter approach, McGaw issues strict instructions to his staff on epistolary style; e.g., never sound professional, never start with...
...enthusiasm of these new-style heretic hunters is being fanned by a number of antiquarians. Dean of them all is tall, gaunt Déodat Roche, 79, a former magistrate of Arques, whose lifelong dedication to spreading the Cathar gospel, organizing pilgrimages to Montségur, and following the strict vegetarian regimen of his heretic ancestors has earned him the nickname "the Cathar Bishop." More active is Sociology Professor René Nelli of the University of Toulouse ("the vicar of Catharism"), who lectures on the subject all over France and has been commissioned by the French government to collect relics...
...convictions in the one industry and conflict-of-interest charges in the other," in obvious reference to the conflict-of-interest troubles of a Ford competitor, Chrysler (see following story). To prevent recurrences, said Ford, top corporate executives must take full responsibility for setting up high ethical standards and strict policies and policing "with the utmost thoroughness and intensity." With a mea culpa, as a General Electric director, he also suggested that outside directors should make it their business "to be aware of the pertinent codes and policies of the companies on whose boards they sit." If the companies themselves...