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...doctor's degree in administrative engineering at the University of Berlin, set out in 1945 to invent the machine that would make his fortune. He was earning good pay as a time-study man at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond. Calif., but he expected the job to fold after war's end, and he did not want to go back to chiseling out a bare living in a one-man woodwork shop, as he had done in his first few years in the U.S. Recalling a newspaper article that predicted a postwar do-it-yourself boom, Goldschmidt decided...
...invective, army veteran McCormick reflected and said: "It seems to us that Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel." But after two weeks of retrospect, the Tribune eased back into the Senator's fold: "Senator McCarthy has been trying to clean out some of the subversive characters that the New Deal planted in the Government services. If he has made a few mistakes, that is only human. There is no doubt that he wishes to save the country...
...Business School increased its interviewing and recruiting program "three or four-fold" in making up the present second-year class, whose members have now run into difficulty. At that time, in 1953, an attempt was being made to gain wide geographic distribution...
...American way." Snorted Director William (Roman Holiday) Wyler: "We can't be guardians of children ... It is up to the parents . . . Personally, I think censor boards ought to go out of business. That's what the Supreme Court meant . . . Why the hell don't they fold...
...attack came at a moment when Yugoslavia was astir with cold cross winds. Since Stalin's death, there has been a guarded renewal of relations between Belgrade and some Cominform capitals. Yugoslavia has renewed full diplomatic relations with Russia. Might Tito, the black-sheep Communist, return to the fold now that there was a change of shepherds? The State Department does not think he dares go back; the British only last week showed their belief in his continuing an tipathy for Moscow by granting Tito's regime another $8,400,000 in aid. It is a fact, however...