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Revising French history to conform, Vichy has instructed French teachers to pay less attention to the French Revolution of 1789, more to "the Kings who built up France." Until new history books are written, teachers are to use the old, eliminating some parts, "interpreting" others...
...Roosevelt Administration has kept undeviatingly to the Mellon-sponsored plan. By 1936 L'Enfant's Mall was finished, though the Major's Gallic eyes would have popped at the huge neo-Grecian temples battlementing its northern length. Business houses, even churches near certain Federal areas now conform to the plan...
...Proletarians, you have nothing to lose but your chains." This battle cry of Red leaders can now be amended, and made to conform with Soviet developments in the last 20 years, with the following supplement: "And nothing to gain but a still more galling chain...
Calories and Figures. Most healthy adults keep the same weight year after year, whether they live on salads or steak and apple pie. The body adjusts its processes automatically to conform to the amount of food taken in. A heavy meal does not ordinarily lay down an extra pound or two, because a large quantity of food stimulates metabolism...
...foreign relations, establish a common currency, common citizenship, common communications in the Federal Union. All powers not specifically granted the Union would be retained by each state: the state could be socialist or capitalist, a republic like the U. S., a monarchy like Britain. But each would have to conform to a Bill of Rights, grant freedom of speech, of worship, of the press, the right to peaceful assembly...