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Canadians are ever conscious of the "colossus of the South." Last week at a Pilgrim Society dinner in Manhattan, Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester Bowles Pearson pronounced the current Canadian view of the colossus...
...essays except the last display a verse style that is as sparkling as it is smooth, and as stimulating as it is comprehensive. After thirty years of criticizing the colossus of mechanized society, Mr. Huxley can still expand his thesis delightfully...
...opposite page are some postwar Moscow pictures. Like postcard shots anywhere, they put the best face on the city: behind the big buildings are acres of slums. The girder-skeleton (top left) is for a 26-story office building on Smolensky Square, not very imposing in Manhattan but a colossus in Europe. The splendid subway station is on the newly opened Great Circle link (TIME, Nov. 14). Most of the shiny autos, which are on their way to a soccer game at the Dynamo Stadium, are owned by the Soviet elite-Communist Party members and officials. The women bricklayers (bottom...
...corporation." But Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, the corporation's chairman and Labor's vice president in charge of groundnuts, also had some excuse for this. In the first year (1947-48), the scheme had been run by a subsidiary of the empire-wide business colossus, Unilever. Plummer claimed that when his corporation took over a year ago, the books were already in chaos. This did not satisfy one Tory M.P., who exploded: "Damned if any shareholders but the British public would stand for any business of theirs being run this way!" Conservatives were happily whetting their knives...
...Dartmouth is no colossus--after two weeks, the Crimson will be back in its own league again, playing on more or less even terms, Except for some depreciation in the left side of the line, Dartmouth will field almost the same team that barely beat Harvard, 14 to 7, here last year. And Harvard, injuries notwithstanding, has certainly not deteriorated since that time...