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Barriers to Be Broken. The Schuman Plan, perhaps the most imaginative postwar act of European statesmanship, is intended to bind the six West European nations into a single U.S.-size "coal and steel community," able to produce 220 million tons of coal and 38 million tons of steel each year. Within this vast integrated market (total pop. 155 million) there will be no customs duties on coal and steel shipments, and miners and steelworkers will be able to move freely without passports or visas. A supranational High Authority of nine "stateless technocrats" (no more than two from any one country...
...political life. Those who are selected for office by their fellow men are entrusted with grave responsibilities. They have been selected not for self-enrichment, but for conscientious public service. In their speech and in their actions they are bound by the same laws of justice and charity which bind private individuals in every other sphere of human activity...
Caught in a Dream. Something more than his overnight success and riches seems to bind Lanza to Hollywood. Caught in the daydream of a small boy, he is not ready to take up the role of the mature artist, the man from whom people have come to accept-and expect-a brilliant performance. It is easier to think of himself as a prodigy borne on the shoulders of the fans; every time he opens his mouth, he wants someone to be hearing his voice incredulously for the first fracturing time...
...visit would fulfill Choate's hope which he expressed in 1907: "We reiterate the hope that all Harvard men will come to the rock from which they were hewn ... where the founder of this great university spent so much of his youth, and so add more links which bind the old country with...
...American Fair Trade Council argued that the decision applied only to items in interstate commerce. Then it pointed out that Congress could bind non-signers by an amendment to the 1937 Miller-Tydings Act, which made state fair-trade laws possible by exempting fair traders from prosecution for price-fixing under antitrust laws. But chances for such an amendment are slim; fair-trade now has a lot of enemies it did not have...