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...strange shapes? "I am trying to tell the world in this frustrated time of ours that there is beauty in spite of all the ugliness and horror. I am trying to ... call attention to the constructive, not the destructive, to the balanced side of life and not the chaotic...
...difficult to execute, but the atmosphere of a DAR continental convention would make it entirely plausible. Last month, for instance, the Daughters tackled and demolished everything from dope smuggling to the gold standard. A resolution for return to the latter brought protest from an amateur economist: "It would be chaotic to put the United States alone on the gold standard." She was silenced by "It is only foreigners who can't redeem in gold," and the resolution passed...
...held it winless in New Haven for four years. The day before the game Ed Mrkonich was cut over he eye in practice, and Joff Coolidge went to the infirmary with a high temperature Saturday morning. Despite the loss of these two key players, Harvard found itself after a chaotic first period to completely outscrap the Elis over the final 40 minutes, and win its second consecutive Yale victory...
...February 1943, Yeo-Thomas made his first parachute mission to France. He found the underground in a chaotic state, the left hand against the right, informers everywhere. In six or seven weeks of dogged work, largely by naked force of character, he and two Gaullists managed to set up a central Resistance...
Defense Secretary Lovett, a Republican himself, waited until last week to announce that the U.S. could hardly fight a war under the present chaotic setup of his Defense Department. Secretary of State Acheson, for his part, bade farewell to the U.S. Foreign Service with a thinly veiled appeal to the Foreign Service to stay true to Acheson policies & principles, come what may. Harry Truman sent Congress a budget with a $9.9 billion deficit. He also wrote Ike a letter asking him to put 400,000 "temporary" Government employees on the permanent civil-service list. If Ike does, he freezes...