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Kennan was indignant when State flatly and successfully opposed a Republican drive in Congress to write a $100 million Far Eastern section into the Military Assistance Program (MAP). The funds would have been at the disposal of the Administration for discretionary use against Communism in East Asia.
Britain's Reginald Reynolds, a "confirmed serendipitist" (discoverer of unexpected treasures) and the author of a learned, witty study of sewage-disposal problems (Cleanliness and Godliness, TIME, May 6, 1946), is no nostalgic yearner for the boskier days of old. In Beards he stands aloof (and beardless), a lollipop...
In Paris everybody knows the Château de la Muette as a mansion of the De Rothschilds. Last week the men who now govern Europe's finances sat in the same gilt & cream chamber where the De Rothschilds once practiced their financial wizardry.* Delegates from 19 OEEC areas...
The biologists have dozens of other projects. Some are digging for fossils in Vermont; some are trying to find how insects got their wings; some are learning how the human eye sees; and one man is studying the effects of sewage disposal in the ocean. There's a project for...
Some sectors of the web stand out with special pathos or splendor: aged members of the Home Guard clutching club and pike; the tormented heroes of the bomb-disposal squads, whose faces "seemed different from those of ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the...