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...years I have been afraid of the day when some harebrained crusader would raise the cry to destroy the Brazilian jungle and civilize the area. It would appear that that day has arrived. The armies of commercialism will chop roads through the greatest forest in the world, towns will spring up, and in a few years the alluring area will be leprosied with everything from filling stations to billboards...
...with other jet engine producers has been experimenting with the metal for three years. P. & W. agreed to use titanium in the J57 engines for the B-52 (TIME, Aug. 4). The Pentagon hopes such moves will multiply the uses of titanium in a hurry, thus spur production and chop its cost per pound...
...Eagle Hotel was jammed and seething. Coats & hats were piled on the twin beds, and people were perching cheerfully on top of the coats & hats. Others helped themselves to the open bottles of Scotch, bourbon and rye on the dresser, or dug into the communal paper buckets of chop suey, chicken and egg rolls on the table. Looming above the pandemonium, with the air of a prophet who has just been slugged by a vigorous vision, was Candidate Estes Kefauver. He moved slowly through the throng, sipping a Scotch highball, dropping an affectionate long arm around shoulder after shoulder...
When the Corporation decided to chop off the Stadium's north end, it did so simply as a matter of income and cost. Maintaining the steel stands was expensive and few sat in them anyway. But the decision is more significant than account books would suggest...
Like all analogies, this one can be carried only so far as the willingness of the rich to pay taxes, which reaches a nadir about this time every year. But it is something for the Congressional axe-brandishers to consider as they chop away at foreign aid while their eyes are fastened on the election stump. While there is no police power to force them to pay the taxes of the free world, the threats of outside conquest and inner deterioration are far more pressing in the international case than in the domestic...