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...General Assembly opened this week on the World's Fair site at Flushing, N. Y., with Harry Truman on hand to give it a Missouri-style pat on the back. The organizational matters which the Assembly will discuss at this session will collapse like cardboard if the fundamental disputes between East and West are not settled. Men of good will could only hope that the framework of the U.N. would be strengthened by the time peace is delivered...
Despite its painfully vital theme and generally plausible story, On Whitman Avenue is flattish propaganda and flatter theater. Working from the problem in, instead of from the people out, it consistently substitutes cardboard for flesh & blood, cliches for sharp, individual reactions. Dramatically, moreover, it soon hobbles, eventually halts. Fairly interesting while matters are coming to a head, from then on it can only .repeat its wrangles, restate its issues, and delay its ending...
...Rudolf G. Schmieder of the University of Pennsylvania told how science has learned these signs and put them to use. First to interpret the bee law of dance and scent was Professor Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich. Near a hive he placed a square of cardboard perfumed with bergamot oil, and on it a dish full of sugar syrup. Fifty yards away he arranged a row of cards. None offered syrup, but each had a different scent. One was oil of bergamot...
...M.R.P. and the Right were not persuaded. The final vote was tense and tight. President Gouin cast a white cardboard ballot, meaning yes. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault of the M.R.P. followed with a blue slip, meaning no. When all the tallies were in, the Communist-Socialist combine had won, 309 to 249. The proposed Constitution for the Fourth Republic went to the French people for approval or rejection...
...Lackawanna Valley, but the king was dead. Hard coal diggings had scarred Scranton's hills and undermined its streets; the exhausted mines threatened to cave in the whole economy of the polyglot community among the culm dumps of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Even the war had given Scranton only a cardboard security...