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Ambassador Kennedy, who went to London straight from his Washington job of striving to build up a modern U. S. merchant marine (viewed in Britain as unwelcome competition), tartly told the Navy League: "We try to understand your need for a great merchant fleet. We hope you will try to understand our need for a small...
Thus, having had their interest aroused by Indian blankets a teacher has brought into their classroom, pupils may decide to study Indians. They form committees, go to libraries, museums, parks to find out what Indians ate, where and how they lived. Later they report to their classmates, build tepees, write and produce plays. In the same way they study boats, farming, Egypt. In doing so they have been learning to read, write, count, multiply...
...Drive toward the East) policy of her own, with only tough little Paraguay to oppose her in obtaining a water route to the Atlantic. Now Bolivia will have a small corridor between the Brazilian border and the new Paraguayan border (see map) to the Paraguay River, where she can build a port of her own. By filling in swampland, roads and railroads can be built from the Andean plateau to that port. From there Bolivian products can be transported down the broad Paraguay River into the Paraná River, then into the River Plata and finally into the Atlantic. Puerto...
...Deal. Every unemployed Czechoslovak male aged over 18 was last week ordered to register for Labor Service, a program created by the Syrovy Cabinet to conscript in effect every jobless Czechoslovak to build new railways, highways and other projects necessary to get the dismembered Czechoslovak Republic reorganized and on its feet. As fast as they are mustered out of the Czechoslovak army, great numbers of recruits will be mustered into the Labor Service, and stern punishment was decreed for the new Czechoslovak crime of giving a man a "fake job," thus exempting from Labor Service...
Duke University (Durham, N.C.) has used the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke's millions to build one of the architectural, if not intellectual, wonders of U.S. higher education. It is hardly a place from which would be expected to come the theory that Gothic palaces do not a university make. Yet last week in Duke Forest, about five minutes' walk from the Gothic campus, 32 Duke Law School students celebrated their return to a simple life. Like Abraham Lincoln, they began to study law in log cabins...