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...condemn the Morgenthau and Keynes plan in toto as putting the cart before the horse, as encouraging rather than checking unsound tendencies in Europe, and as introducing new unsound tendencies at home...
...Manual, Memo and Specimens . . . with no explanations. . . . They figure it would drive Adolf aunts trying to figure them out. We'd hate to see how voluminious the Manual and Memo would be in Japanese. A supply officer in the Jap Navy would probably have to have a "can" to cart his instructions around...
Most striking example shown last week was the Carreta de la Muerte-a "death cart" (see cut) in which a grinning skeleton with elongated wooden limbs sits upright with a bow & arrow poised for shooting. The cart was used in the Holy Week ceremonies of the Penitentes, a sect of zealots who flagellated and crucified themselves and each other, and which, although modified in ceremony, still exists in remote regions of New Mexico...
...British seemed not so much offended as amused. Said the London Observer: ". . . the Colonel's brave new thought is far from original. In his play The Apple Cart, produced nearly 14 years ago, Bernard Shaw made exactly this suggestion. The Apple Cart was voted quite good comedy...
...tunnels themselves are fairly high and well lighted, and even the most staid observer would be forgiven a pardonable desire to be turned loose here underground with a Jeep. Only the passage of a occasional food cart breaks the cool silence of the tunnels, although several hundred unwitting students may be tramping overhead...