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Strengths and weaknesses, however, are opposite sides of the same coin. Qualities of personal integrity and moral conscience are not enough to counteract the sub-rational and even sub-human forces of the modern world. There is something depressing in reading the record of Welles' career: highly praised but abortive plans for peace conferences in 1939, polite missions to the Axis leaders, "lucid and well-informed" reports on the Munich crisis. It is a kind of tragic record of the death throes of personal diplomacy. A man of wit, fore-night, honor, and good-will was totally incapable of deflecting...
...apiece, the price of the trip. Last month, Dennis Field, son of one of the school's cleaning women, reluctantly gave up his place because he could not afford it. Quentin Green and another boy promptly applied for the empty seat on the tour plane. They flipped a coin, Quentin called "heads...
...ought to go into the Common Market to end the division of Europe that has spawned three wars in the last 100 years, he was interrupted by both camps, but refused to be shouted down. "The Suez group and the extreme unilateralists are the reverse side of the same coin," he snapped. "They're both based on a greatly exaggerated view of Britain's importance in the world...
...CRIMSON editorialist in September 1932 found cause for the Freshman to worry, but he saw the other side of the coin untarnished. "True, they enter College at a time when family and University budgets are severely restricted to essentials. But today, as freshmen, they will find men's minds quickened to thought and imagination by the problems of the present crisis; to the eager student such an atmosphere here is well worth the small sou of temporary financial restriction...
...stock, was elected chairman of the 63-year-old San Francisco company, which runs lumber, tanker and mining operations. Coleman plans to keep Pacific Coast separate from his Chicago jukebox and vending-machine business, but some of Pacific Coast's silver dollars may be dropped in the automatic coin machines that Coleman regards as a top growth product...