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...equal. But when you add to it a charge of timidity against a nation that has in its time fought and beaten (usually at unfavorable odds) the French, Dutch, Russians, Spaniards, Italians, Chinese, Japanese and Germans and burnt down the White House, your essay in self-righteousness is the utmost presumption...
Horse of Distinction Sir: Re TIME, May 31: It was very refreshing to see a thing of beauty on your cover after a long succession of gimlet-eyed politicians, visionary healers, obtuse-browed soldiers, coelacanthine millionaires, foreign tyrants and dyspeptic men of utmost distinction...
...mind, it is of utmost importance to learn more about the fundamentals; how tuberculosis gets its start, and the factors which determine whether the victim will have a mild infection or "galloping consumption." Too little is still known, he complains, of the life processes of the bacillus or the mechanics of its virulence. And, amid its obvious ravages, no man can say why so many people enjoy a high degree of natural immunity to its invasion...
...memorandum was read, McCarthy knew that he had been blocked from what looked like a good opening into more diversionary headlines, Such as LODGE DENIES HE TOOK KREMLIN ORDERS. Despite his familiarity with the issue on which Brownell repeated the traditional stand of the executive, McCarthy professed the utmost bewilderment. He asked for a five-minute recess to consult with his aides about "this unbelievable situation...
...three operations, hooking up a child-patient's blood flow with the father's so that the father's heart and lungs do the work for both. This can go on for half an hour, at least. In that precious time the surgeons can operate to utmost advantage, in a "dry field...