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...early in Japan's new springtime to predict such dire weather. It all depended on how 83 million Japanese absorb the lessons in freedom still to come. Two days after the first bloody lesson, the Emperor appeared in the Plaza, overflowing this time with a peaceful 10,000. He, at least, had changed since defeat: he spoke with a personal "I," not the old imperial "We." Pleased but a little bewildered by the "Banzai!" that reverberated from his palace walls, the tiny, spectacled man in the silk topper spoke humbly to his subjects. "Let us thoroughly embrace the tenets...
Undergraduates and graduates wanting to absorb some of the Washington scene this summer may apply for two annual reciprocal exchange scholarships offered by the American University in Washington, D.C., the Summer School office announced yesterday...
Truman went on to examine the "facts" of the industry's profits (see BUSINESS). They were high enough, he insisted, to absorb the full cost of the union's demands. He did not mention other facts: that the profit figures he used were profits before taxes; that the union shop was one of the major stumbling blocks in the whole dispute. Instead, in his best (or worst) fighting style, he let the companies have...
Sometimes a single event will absorb much of the attention of people from coast to coast. Recent examples were the Minnesota and New Hampshire primaries and the death of King George VI. More frequently, however, the leading subjects of conversation are almost as numerous as the reports-ranging from a siege of virus influenza in Los Angeles to the traffic death rate in Wichita and a drive to eliminate rabid foxes in Pennsylvania. And even during those weeks that are dominated by a single subject, other topics compete for conversational honors...
...which devotes as much space to deporting immigrants as to admitting them, limits yearly immigration to one-sixth of one percent of the American population. While smaller than many had hoped, this figure is not too unreasonable, for the nation should not admit more people than we can comfortably absorb into out economy. But the McCarran method of immigration is riddled with injustices. Each country's quota of immigrants is based upon the number of American citizens whose families came from that country. By basing this quota on the 1920 census, McCarran discriminates against southern and eastern Europeans, since there...