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...months as an Army topographer in the Pacific that showed him what he was looking for. Today, he builds his strange and wonderful landscapes by laying on row after row of thin, radiating lines in red, yellow and brown paint with the blunt edge of a knife. He works until the ridges seem to catch and reflect the light, like fine embroidery done in metallic thread, and then he is satisfied...
...giant at 150 pounds, does all the punting; and just to make things tough for the press-box, a third brother, 132-pound Bob, will play Mueller's half-back Saturday. Spell Utz with a capital "G". To blunt charges of nepotism, the coach will start big Bob Winkler at full-back, bad ankle...
Last weeK Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Sparkman campaigned through Iowa, talking mostly about prosperity. While Iowa's prosperity will help the Democratic cause with the purse-minded farmers, its effect is at least partially offset by some blunt economic facts: the farmers' taxes and living costs have been going up, while the trend of prices for their farm products has been down. Farm policy -Republican v. Democrat promises to farmers-has not developed as a burning 1952 issue in Iowa. Other issues, e.g., Government corruption and the Korean war, are hotter...
...them. This fall, the Office sent each landlady a note reminding them that discriminators were not welcome on the housing lists, but colored students kept returning empty-handed. Acting on its threat the Office has erased landladies who admit purposely drawing a color line from its listings. But such blunt cases are rare. For every bare-faced discriminator, there are ten who protest that "they wouldn't mind a Negro, but their tenants would...
...blunt words and the police cordon were part of a wrangle that began a fortnight ago with the closing of one Church of Christ in northern Italy, and reached a climax last week when the Italian government closed all 22 of them. In three years of missionary work in Roman Catholic Italy, Church of Christ missionaries have made only 450 converts. Some of their followers, after accepting gifts of food and clothing, have gone back to Catholicism. But until the closing, the outlook for more converts still seemed hopeful...