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...Britain's difficulties in returning to normal economic intercourse are of direct concern to us.... If the loan is approved, we can look ahead ... to a general reduction of tariffs ... a loosening of the grip of cartels and combines on world commerce...
...human life. Neither did Nazi Germany nor Fascist Italy, which made a mockery of their concordats with Rome. World War II by no means ended the totalitarian threat to Europe. The Soviet glacier edged deep into the old continent, froze such Catholic nations as Poland and Hungary in its grip. In the rest of Europe large masses still looked to Communism for salvation-or at least for retribution. In the long perspective of the Church, it was not hard to envision a Sovietized continent...
Modern government has tightened its grip on undergraduate popularity, with Gov. 1b surpassing even English Ab, according to tentative course enrolment figures released yesterday by Sargent Kennedy, Registrar of the College...
...Island naval base. The Navy offered tools and materials, later supplied a human guinea pig: 25-year-old Lieut. Howard Pollack, who had lost his right arm in the South Pacific campaign. Stiles, with Lieut. Pollack's cooperation, eventually developed an artificial hand which he claimed would tweeze, grip, poke, carry and press. A Stiles-equipped amputee might thus be able to bowl, play golf, pick up a pin, hold a cigaret, button his own sleeve...
...inmate of a mental hospital described his own reaction to electric shock treatment: "The zero hour arrives at last. . . . They are ushering me into a small cubicle. ... Six strong pairs of hands holding me down with an iron grip. . . . Then suddenly a flash of green lightning. . . . Numbers being read off, everything being carefully, scientifically, maddeningly checked (God in heaven, I can't swallow, I can't swallow...