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Nearly a month had passed since the U.S. and Britain announced their plan to break the eight-year-old deadlock over Trieste. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia was expected to boil with anger, and he did. But he was also expected to calm down and resign himself grudgingly to the Allies' fait accompli. The disquieting fact last week was that Tito showed little sign of calming down...
...this connection, your Foreign News article on Great Britain in the same issue makes my blood boil . . . Any nation whose leaders are trying to make a policy of coddling the thugs and bandits of Communist Russia . . . deserves not only to lose its role of international leadership, but its national identity as well, as did Assyria, Babylonia and ancient Rome...
...women, at 18 for the married-on the amiable theory that marriage is an indication of maturity. Only one of 40 Senators spoke out against the amendment. "This," cried Aquiles ElorcLy, in a faint echo of the anticlericalism that used to keep Mexican politics at a low boil, "hands the country to the church." None of the other 39 lawmakers seemed to fear that Mexico's predominantly Roman Catholic women would rush out to form an all powerful, pro-clerical party...
...parkland made available by vertical concentration, no crèche on the 18th floor, will make up for the handkerchief of private garden . . . The privileges of ... gathering up a tearful toddler within a few seconds of his tumble at play, of quieting a squabble . . . without leaving the milk to boil over may seem trivial to architects; by mothers they are valued much above communal laundries...
...until he has a big enough pile to turn over to his secretary. Aware that time is also money, he saves it with staff warnings: "Observe the three Bs-be brief be bright and be gone. On all communications to me and to our staff, observe the fourth B-boil it down...