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...were tall ones and short ones in the crowd and weights ranged all the way from a hefty 235 pounds down to a bare 125. The two-and-a-half man coaching staff consisting of Chief Boston and Nick Mellen (Al Kevorkian, another assistant, is wavering on the military brink) at times was almost lost in the crowd and naturally it was impossible to make any accurate evaluation of the squad's actual potentialities...
...plans gathered dust simply because the President still teetered on the brink of the great decision he dreads: to reorganize the defense management by a sweeping surgical operation, or to let things boggle along until somehow the U.S. produces enough war material in spite of bad management. From almost every man whose opinion he has respected in the past still came the sincere warning: revise the setup from top to bottom now; bring in fresh management blood to replace the men who have failed to deliver what was needed of them; outline the controls so clearly that the red-tape...
Politics-as-Usual. Like many another defense project, price control got lost somewhere in Washington's maze of politics-as-usual. When Henderson sat down with the committee fortnight ago, the job of talking the bill through Congress looked easy. His thesis that the nation was "on the brink of inflation" could be substantiated by simple charts: wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities were up 50% since the beginning of the war; from the pre-war level food costs were up 13%, house furnishings 4.7%, clothing 3%. Without the price bill, the U.S. would repeat its experience of World...
...proud, half-savage people who, neither Red nor White, fiercely and hopelessly resisted the Bolsheviks during 1917-21. In And Quiet Flows the Don (TIME, July 2, 1934) Sholokhov marshaled a big cast of Cossacks through the vicissitudes of war and revolution, left them at the brink of civil war. In this, its 777-page sequel, he carries them through that war to its last exhausted gasp in the Bolshevik triumph...
Like a naked schoolboy on the edge of summer's first plunge, Congress last week stood shivering on the brink of a new tax bill. For four weeks the House Ways and Means Committee had stared bleakly at the dark waters into which Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau (TIME, May 5) gloomily urged them. One day they closed their eyes, held their noses, and jumped...