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Fadeaway Father. At first, the psychiatrist seemed to John to be just a pleasantly "anonymous" object. Later, he seemed like the real father John had always wanted. At last, he just seemed to fade away-and so did John Brown, the spineless misfit who drank too much, walked with a cringing stoop and wanted the girl he loved to be his mother rather than his wife. Into John Brown's shoes stepped self-confident Jake Braunowitz, who no longer hated his family, because he understood their desperate struggle, who no longer hated the world, because he believed that...
...Bowie of Union Theological Seminary. He cites the King James's "There were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field," which now becomes "In that region there were shepherds out in the fields," and sighs: "It is as though for a moment a glory seems to fade...
...Lescot fitted smoothly into the prevailing Haitian pattern of power. In the poorest, most overcrowded of Latin American republics, a wealthy mulatto elite ruled an ocean of pure blacks. Lescot ran the country under martial law, throttled the press. But even among the elite his popularity began to fade when he allowed his sons too flagrantly to acquire expropriated German property. The elite moreover became convinced that he had lost official U.S. favor. He was also identified with the ill-starred, U.S.-financed rubber-production scheme, which fizzled out in Haiti before war's end. Living costs trebled...
Plug the Hole? Just who discovered this corporation fade-out is a mystery...
...others cited scientific opinion that the secret could not be kept, argued that the bomb be made available to the United Nations Organization. Said Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps: "The thing I fear is that as the months and years pass the story of Nagasaki and Hiroshima will fade into the background and that . . . this new power of destruction . . . will cease to have its compelling force upon our political actions...