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...development of the Alliance's economic and political potentialities. Dulles suggests that NATO should assume a shape similar to the Organization of American States, with full economic as well as military cooperation among the member nations. Although Drlles refused to be specific about the nature of NATO's new complexion, he did imply that the Alliance would become a sort of giant trading corporation. It would offer economic assistance, eased trading terms, and extended credit to underdeveloped and economically faltering states outside of the European area...
...insists on sitting on the ground. She will love the Indians, if it kills her-and them. Soon, of course, she is an expert on saris and embarrasses everyone by insisting on wearing one at an East-West social function. Most comical of all, the Indians' rich, aristocratic, complexion-conscious Brahmans and Parsees of Bombay resent her modish suntan...
Andrew Allen, 52, is a precise and practical man, with a windburned complexion and a flat drawl; he became Sunday school secretary of the Texas Baptist Convention in 1949, and since then has worked out his own theory of how to do his job. "Small units," he says crisply. "The small unit concept is what has built the Texas Sunday school system, and Sunday school is our best evangelistic opportunity. You build a church by building the Sunday school. When you reach people in Sunday school and teach them the Bible, you get the money; they want to expand...
...Molnar-Hammerstein plot, in particular, shows its greasepaint complexion on the screen. Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae) is a carnival pitchman, and what he pitches best of all is woo. Underneath his brattitude, of course, Billy is a real home-cookin' kid-just the sort of wild bull that really wants a wedding ring in his nose. And, of course, he gets one. He chases a fresh-faced little New England factory girl (Shirley Jones) so hard that she catches him. Billy has lost his carnival job, but he is too big a man to take work on a filthy...
Reality Revealed. Ironically, the election did not indicate a swing of opinion; it only revealed the reality of the French political complexion-a reality that had been successfully concealed for nearly five years by the elaborate electoral system of "alliances" that the French had devised in 1951 to defeat the extremes of Gaullism and Communism. This time the cen ter was so divided that alliances became impossible...