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...gallop into this Europeanization?'' shouted an angry legislator. "It should be done step by step." Citing the cost ($70,000) of joining the Council, Independent Representative Alois Grendelmeier of Zurich huffed, "Diplomatic missions are more than adequate for communicating with other states . . . our neutrality is getting dimmer and dimmer...
Such an interpretation seems eminently plausible. The Fine Arts Department's own opinion of studio courses is that they are valuable only when they set out to teach the principles and techniques of painting; and the department takes a much dimmer view of studio courses when they attempt to make painters--professional or Sunday--of the students. Unfortunately, as one member of the department has put it, it is "hard to keep these two motives separate"--a student often simply must learn to paint in order to understand the techniques he is investigating...
...Embarrassed Cough." The U.S. press took a far dimmer view. "The background noise you hear," said the New York Post in a sly dig at Chain-Smoker Murrow, "is an embarrassed cigarette cough." The New York Times's TV Critic Jack Gould all but invited Murrow to retire: "If Mr. Murrow was acting under orders of the State Department, he should have resigned after 24 hours in office. If Mr. Murrow acted on his own responsibility, his action constitutes an inexplicable refutation of the principle he has enunciated for years-that the good and the bad about this country...
...glowing predictions I made a year ago were certainly wide of the mark," said Joseph L. Block, chairman of Inland Steel Co. "If I were a member of a big-league ball team, I would either be benched or sent back to the minors." The glowing predictions-and the dimmer actualities that followed-added up to a lesson. They made the U.S. see clearly that no matter what it had done, it was not enough. Employment stood at 67 mil lion in December, a record for the month, but unemployment rose to 4,250,000, which...
...ultimate fate of a white dwarf, says Dr. Luyten, is to grow slowly dimmer and smaller. After billions of years, its light will change from white to yellow, then to red. Eventually it will die, and the product will be a black dwarf: a cold sphere of degenerate matter weighing as much as the sun, but smaller than most planets and giving no light...