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...handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico, and then he made a comment about the U.S. that was calculated to echo in Italy: "One visit like this is more than enough to dispel the erroneous idea prevalent in Europe that the American idea is to use money to get money. I find that, on the contrary, money is used to create and display beauty...
BENSON: . . . Most interesting ... No one questions that agriculture is in a serious squeeze between rising prices for things farmers buy and declining prices for products they sell . . . [But] I want to dispel once and for all any impression . . . that thousands of farmers in Iowa and elsewhere are being driven off their farms . . . The facts are that farm foreclosures are at or near their record low . . . Any attempt, I feel, to persuade the American farmer that the small farmer is dying in Iowa or anywhere else is a perversion of the truth. And I think it's demagoguery...
...order to dispel the confusion which has been caused by the erroneous stories spread by the CRIMSON and Times-Republican spies, the Reactionary Society would firmly and publicly like to express the principles which led to the formation of the Society...
Soon after the election, Kubitschek announced his plans for a foreign tour before inauguration day (Jan. 31). Besides winning attention abroad for Brazil's crucial economic problems, he wanted to dispel the notion that he is a leftist with links of some sort to Brazil's illegal Communist Party. Kubitschek is actually a middle-roader, a founding member of the moderately conservative Social Democratic Party, but he accepted a leftish Labor Party leader as his vice-presidential running mate. On top of that, he failed to reject the Communist Party's bandwagon-climbing endorsement. Inevitably, opponents labeled...
...most novel aspect of Advanced Standing is the provision that could allow a qualified 13-year-old to enter the College directly from the eleventh grade. The Class of 1999 contains five students who skipped the senior year of high school, and a glance at their records helps to dispel any fear that they are either unprepared for Harvard studies or, on the other hand, prepared for nothing but Harvard studies. They are all taking respectable freshman subjects, with three of them, in fact, engaged in math studies more advanced than the elementary Math 1a. None of them is taking...