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...Basis of Freedom. In politics, the Christian emphasis on humility is a warning against putting God on any banner; men know or at least feel the moral law, but they cannot always be certain how it applies to specific situations. Men are compelled to seek the truth, and counseled to be humble about assuming that they have found...
...Premier's fiscal experts ordered butchers to lower meat prices by 10%, and they quickly complied. Then came similar reductions for coffee, rice, flour, margarine and soap; others were scheduled for shoes, textiles, kitchenware, furniture, bicycles. To celebrate la baisse (the lowering), shopkeepers in central Paris hung a banner reading "Rue de la Baisse" across the Rue Montorgueil, and merchants and manufacturers with high inventories cheered. But plain people rubbed their chins and doubted that it would last any longer than other baisses decreed by some of Laniel's predecessors...
Adenauer knew the feeling; perhaps he shared it himself. Back from his U.S. visit, he told the German radio audience: "I shall never forget the visit to Arlington Cemetery," for there, "for the first time," Deutschland über Alles was played together with The Star-Spangled Banner...
...London last week, the world's biggest daily, the tabloid Mirror (circ. 4,432,700) got out its three-inch type for a single banner headline: WOMEN. In smaller type, the Mirror added: Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the World's No. 1 Sexo-analyst, Blows the Gaff Today on All About Eve. Indiana's Dr. Alfred Kinsey was not alone in blowing the gaff. K-day -the prearranged release date* for a summary of his book on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (TIME, Aug. 24)-set off the biggest and raciest commotion the world...
Last week the U.S. sent a Minister Plenipotentiary to the exhibition: William H. Ball, of the fruit-jar and rubber-products family of Muncie, Ind. In his honor, protocol demanded that The Star-Spangled Banner be played. Unable to find a score in all Rhodesia, the sponsors finally discovered a fellow who makes a hobby of collecting records of national anthems. From an old recording of his, copyists worked out an arrangement in time for a gala performance of Aïda. The colonials also raised the Stars & Stripes over the exhibition grounds. But their enthusiasm soon faded a little...