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...Indo-American Point Four program. A bullock-and-plow approach to the irrigation, sanitation, and agricultural backwardness of India's villages, Point Four has proven its value as an instrument of foreign policy. These results, moreover, have cost but 125 million dollars in aid. All but the most ardent Congressional "rathole" theorists have been forced to admit that this relatively small sum has equalled in effectiveness millions for defense spend in other countries...
...John Templar, in a bedroom across the street, "take a running jump and land ploof" alongside Molly Quin, his doxy. To make matters worse, Sabrina was married to old Sir William Wakefield, "a spent candle." How, Sabrina wondered, could she escape from Sir William and join ardent Sir John...
Family & Early Years: Born in Chicago, son of an Irish immigrant stationary fireman (boilers) and ardent trade unionist. He went through grade school and three years of night school, at 17 started work as an apprentice steam fitter, became a journeyman, then went off to World War I as a private in the 332nd Field Artillery...
Forgotten in the enthusiasm was the fact that Einstein, though sympathetic to Israel, had never been an ardent Zionist; he believed in a bi-nationalism that meant "friendly and fruitful coexistence with the Arabs." He does not even know Hebrew, official language of the new state...
...pictures), and Segonzac became a lion of the French art world. His friends were the cubists and Fauvists-Picasso, Vlaminck, Braque, Dufy-but he never let his wilder and woollier pals influence his painting, kept strictly to gentle landscapes, still lifes, and romantic nudes. Once, Poet Guillaume Apollinaire, an ardent advocate of cubism, urged him to join the movement. "Our modern age, the age of aviation," he argued, "should find its reflection in our paintings." Segonzac politely declined: "Corot lived in the age of the locomotive, but he peopled his landscapes with nymphs, not with steam engines...