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...threat of hostilities. The German government speak ... of their 'unchangeable longing for a real pacification of Europe,' and express their willingness to conclude a non-aggression pact with France and Belgium." The real difference between a Locarno pact then and now is that Locarno was a compact between men of good will-a pact with the democratic Weimar Republic of Germany, not with the Germany of Hitler. A Locarno pact now-with Malenkov and Mao-would be like a pact with Hitler. A promise to defend a wolf if he is attacked by the sheep means little...
Along with bigness came trouble. When carpet demand turned down and competition stepped up, the company found it could not operate efficiently in a plant that had grown up haphazardly. The multistoried, scattered buildings could not compete with the compact, straight production lines of other new plants. The company lost...
...pendulous arms terminating in hands of extraordinary dimensions . . . He was dressed in an ill-fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which put one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral . . . His turned-down shirt collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular yellow neck; and above that . . . bristling and compact like a riff of mourning pins, rose the strange, quaint face and head, covered with its thatch of wild republican hair...
...simply no use putting them in the cockpit to confuse him further." The cockpit of the A4D is as simple and uncluttered as a fledgling pilot's first trainer, though Heinemann shies away from the words "stripped down." The necessary equipment, he says, is all there, but more compact. The Hot-Rod's air-conditioning unit weighs only a third of those on conventional fighters, the ejection seat goes down through the floor instead of using the more complicated explosive mechanism needed to blast it up over the tail. By making the plane smaller all around, Heinemann...
...Evans plan resulted from a two year survey made by a special Massachusetts Legislature Commission. The group's original aim was to organize a state medical school, but after study the committee felt that the Compact Program was more practical. The Senate Monday defeated a last-minute effort for a Massachusetts School of Medicine by a voice vote...