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...Austria is utterly tired of having to ask. beg or haggle for every dollar and over the acceptance of every refugee." His complaint is directed chiefly against the U.S., which, if it took in as many refugees in proportion to its size and wealth as has Austria, would have to "admit 500,000 Hungarian refugees instead of 24,000." Most of the 65,000 still in Austria refuse to go on to other European countries, he added, for fear "they will lose their chance of being admitted to the U.S.": under present U.S. law, Hungarians are no longer regarded...
...peace and quiet of his newscasts, "where I can sit down and not have to remember any cues or lines-jiggle the wireless key and get all that money for just telling a few lies." Is he planning another TV show? "Yes, a one-hour spectacular. The stars will beg...
...increased, and the income from it has doubled in 25 years, the significant fact is that during this period the costs of operating the college have quadrupled . .. President Lowell said in 1921, 'Universities, if successful, must be beggars, and the better work they do the more they must beg.' The plea I now make for Harvard College becomes by extension a plea for all higher education. All colleges and universities that are alive are in need...
...fair success, and La Scala offered her another guest appearance. But Callas had the scent of triumph in her nostrils. Haughtily, she refused. They would hire her as a full-fledged member of the company, or they would not get her at all. "They expected me to beg for a role. I would rather have died," she told friends. In 1951 La Scala capitulated. At the age of 28, she opened the Scala season in Sicilian Vespers...
While not necessarily an advocate of "Republican prosperity" as opposed to "Democratic prosperity," I still must beg to differ with your economic views as propounded in your editorial of September 28. The writer, in pointing out the very true fact that the National Income or Gross National Product is made larger through debt financing, uses this fact to imply that: 1) our prosperity is a mirage; 2) the Republicans are to blame for the debt; and 3) that the Republicans are guilty of deceit in saying that this is an era of unmatched economic well-being. With these implications...