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Among Russia's European satellites, nationalism has also reasserted itself as it has in the West-and it gets stronger as fear of Khrushchev's Russia diminishes. That is why alliances on both sides are in a state of flux, and therein also lies one of the dangers to the West...
...that Bonn's trade surplus for 1964's first two months was running at a staggering annual rate of $2.4 billion. Erhard sees the pile-up of export-earned foreign exchange as another spur to inflation, which is already getting a push from a huge in flux of foreign capital ($725 million in 1963) attracted by the high yields of German securities. Last week, determined to try and keep Germany an island of relative stability in the rising sea of European inflation, Erhard ordered drastic measures to curb foreign investment...
Then Stalin dies. Spring is nigh, and the screen bursts with the flux of a great thaw. Glaciers move. Oppressive ice masses give way to a life-giving socialist sun, and quick as a wink all Russia is awash with sentiment. Such devices sweep Clear Skies right to the edge of a slushy cinematic wasteland. Trick effects multiply with stultifying regularity. The camera, scudding skyward, frequently pauses to record the emotional temperature, ranging from before-the-storm to lo-the-dawn...
Like other varieties of language, Negro argot is always in flux. Terms that are widely adopted by whites go out of style among Negroes, or take on radically different meanings. Square has lately come to mean cigarette, is losing the meaning-not hip-that is familiar to whites. "When it's hip among whites," says one white investigator of the Negro argot, "it's already square among Negroes...
...along time; but that the entire system of education in America is passing through an almost explosive revolution. The seat of that revolution is in the high schools, which have begun with increasing success to invade the early years of college instruction. Everything that we are doing is in flux and on the run, and will continue to be so for some time to come. A shock wave of greater and faster and deeper learning is passing through the whole system. It bit the elementary college courses a few years ago, and is now passing upward through the curriculum. Shortly...