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Babel to Eden. In quiet Havana, distant from the main stream of events, 53 nations last week signed and tossed into history's lap a weighty compact. Typically, the nations' delegates were apt to speak not of "free trade," but of "freer trade." In the smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade...
Soon machines were shipped in, roads were snaked around Itabira's core, and test drillings were sunk into the solid heart. The peak's top 300 feet proved out as "compact hematite," red as rust and heavy to the hand-and the best ore there is. Below were huge deposits of "Canga" (54-62% iron) and soft "Itabarite" "(45-52%). After the tests, the work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents...
Novelist Alec Waugh, balding elder brother of Novelist Evelyn, explained to a Manhattan interviewer how the Waughs kept from tripping over each other. "We made a compact," recalled Alec, "that we wouldn't go to the same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know. I took the cricket countries. I like cricket and football." Henry L Mencken, keg-shaped sage of Baltimore, received the press on the occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year...
Above all, "Gentleman's Agreement" is a call for action that will be somewhat embarrassing to everyone except those who reject its message right from the beginning. The gentleman's agreement is a compact of silence, it says, and these who tacitly, even if unwillingly, accept anti-semitism as a part of the social system are as guilty as the active bigots. This point is made with a minimum of declamatory speeches: a burning issue has been put frankly before the eyes of the public, and the overall excellence of the movie as a movie should attract many besides...
...more frequent on U.S. bookshelves were new books about American heroes, past & present. There was the usual swelling of Lincolniana. The most compact was Paul Angle's The Lincoln Reader, the most controversial was J. G. Randall's Lincoln, the Liberal Statesman. The other myth amaking, the Roosevelt myth, was being shaped by varied hands, including F.D.R.'s bodyguard. Son Elliott edited a fat volume of his father's letters written between the ages of five and 22, and the President's Vatican representative, Myron C. Taylor, brought out the platitudinous Wartime Correspondence Between President...