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...Negotiate a commercial accord with Britain, the only major coal and steel producer which shunned the Schuman Plan...
...Faith. "In the United States I breathe freely, and on analyzing this impression. I find myself in profound accord with the political thought and the institutions of this nation. To use a great word that sums up everything, for the first time in my life I breathe in a climate of legitimacy. Here, it is evident that democracy is legitimate, that is, it springs from an undefiled source. For a Frenchman, it is an immense surprise and a deliverance to feel...
Against many diseases (e.g., pneumonia, tuberculosis) Metropolitan has shifted its line of attack in accord with the advances made by medicine generally. Against others, there is still need for fuller public information (e.g., earlier detection of cancer means more cures). And the battle against obesity (TIME, June 23) is still, as in the 1920s, using some of Metropolitan's liveliest life-saving copy...
Change of Mind. In signing, Harry Truman surprised almost everyone. During the long hearings before Congress, he had strongly protested Fair Trade as "not in accord with our program"; government agencies had damned Fair Trade as thwarting free competition and lower prices for consumers. Why had the president changed his mind...
...capital, Musi-comedienne Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing disclosed that her giddy role had not kept her from observing a phenomenon across the local footlights. Her dictum: "Washington audiences come to the theater as researchers. They watch me like hawks and . . . treat me with the deference they would accord to a symphony, but it's impersonal . . . If Americans are ready to accept big people with close-cropped hair and large eyes like me, Washington wants to know about it. I have a feeling I'm being examined and absorbed and filed away, because you never know when...