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...selfconsistency might be termed a "soft" to get into trouble. The "hard" pragmatist seeks to avoid the eventual plight of his less scrupulous comrade by two tactics. First, he looks upon life as a constant quest for new and higher values. Secondly, he remains ever flexible, ever ready to adjust his ideas in order that the new values may be incorporated into a coherent world scheme...
...traffic will bear." In the days when railroads still enjoyed a monopoly of transportation, the more valuable products were charged at a higher rate and the less valuable materials were carried at a minimum profit. Before competition from the trucking industry this system worked well, but now railroads must adjust their rates to shipping costs rather than to the value of the commodities...
...sincerely appreciate TIME'S contribution to greater public understanding of farm problems in its cover story of April 5 and its April 12 story illustrating USDA's program to adjust land use to meet growing needs for outdoor recreation. Yet the last sentence in your cover story is deeply disturbing in its implication that the freedom to plant extra acres of corn is more important than freedom to earn a fair living...
...predictions of the Bender Report are an accurate guide, the trend toward academicism in the College should hurt ROTC programs as well as extra-curricular activities. The Air Force will have to adjust even more than it has to the academic orientation of Harvard and similar universities if it is to be able to attract the elite college graduates which it desires
PARIS, April 8--Under the threat of a Communist takeover in Laos, the United States, Britain and France strove tonight to adjust their differences in Asia and Europe. President Charles de Gaulle's government exhibited a new spirit of cooperation...