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...Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett admitted that "from time to time . . . there were shortages [in Korea], and at some points it was critical." He told the subcommittee that he first learned of the shortages through rumors and through informal conversations with officers returning from Korea. That was in the autumn of 1951. A year later, after trying unsuccessfully to get the Army Department and the Army Chief of Staff to speed up production of short items, or even to admit that shortages existed, he finally "took the problem out of [Army] control and vested it in the hands...
...plot makes little difference to any Chevalier fan. In caricaturing a spring chicken still trying to scratch in mid-autumn he rises above farce to approach great comedy. His lessons to Jacques in picking up beautiful women are as delightful as they are instructive. And one of the funniest scenes shows Jacques stumbling through an imitation of the master's technique with Madeleine as the target...
...Each autumn students enroll in Chemistry 2, expecting a tough and boring semester of inorganic chemistry. By January they know that they were right about the course's toughness, but few call it uninteresting. Associate Professor Leonard K. Nash enlivens his courses by sprinkling lectures with graphic experiments. Tinker toys show the electron configurations of the elements to Natural Science 4 students, and Nash proves the explosive quality of hydrogen by turning a flamcthrower on soap bubbles filled with...
...Ford Foundation created the fund last autumn to "support activities directed toward the elimination of restrictions on freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression in the United States...
...years in China (the past year being spent in a Communist jail), to find the Jan. 5 issue of TIME with its astonishing letter of Henry Willcox. I have witnessed the flight of the Nationalist armies, the arrival of the Red Army, the process of Sovietization since the autumn of 1949, but not the phenomena of which Mr. Willcox writes ... It is true the people are bursting with hope-hope that their Communist masters will be quickly driven out forever. The people are eager, desperately eager for freedom from the despots who harshly rule them...