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...scene in postwar France, recalled last week by an officer who was there, illustrates a basic personality trait with which Eisenhower's staff officers in SHAPE in World War II also were familiar. Eisenhower is a slow starter. He likes to surround a problem, to watch, listen, absorb and learn all he can. Then he acts decisively, firmly. This was his method of operation in planning the invasions of North Africa and Normandy. It was his technique in the presidential campaign last year. He now recalls, with understandable enjoyment, the much-quoted August 1952 Scripps-Howard editorial which declared...
Fear Abroad. One basic drawback to many of the farm plans is the assumption that foreign markets will absorb much of the U.S. farm surplus. Recent events suggest no such hope. At present, the Government has $4 billion tied up in price-prop loans and farm products, an alltime record. Among the stocks on hand: 426 million bu. of wheat v. 133 million last year, 457 million bu. of corn v. 280 million in 1952, 426 million Ibs. of dried milk v. 31 million. In an effort to get rid of the surpluses, the U.S. is willing to sell...
...tutor-student relationship that is the basis of the tutorial system. Also, more space would give tutors in fields other than the big five a chance to come to the Houses. Although new offices would take up paying space, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences should be able to absorb rent costs as part of its aid to the tutorial system...
...know the world. Indeed, they did not-and some appalling blunders resulted. U.S. education is ill-suited for foreign affairs, 19th century style. The educated Briton is reared for debate and negotiation as the Spartan for the spear. A good British Foreign Office man can, by effortless intuition, absorb the essence of a political crisis from a bubble of cocktail conversation. Americans will never be good at that. They will set up a million-dollar study project to find out what a Briton would learn by asking a girl to ask a man who knew. But in their ponderous...
Peeking over the wall of a villa near Cannes, the curious saw a squat, slow-footed man trying to absorb the Riviera sunshine through a heavy, fur-collared coat and baggy cap. The man, who proclaimed himself an architect from Paris, wallowed in luxury amidst the pines. He had five cars and a swimming pool at his disposal, was guarded night & day by a patrol of gun-toting guards and police dogs. The architect: Maurice Thorez, ailing boss of France's Communist Party...