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...paper industry last year hit a walloping $1¼ billion. In domains now pushed clear up into Arctic watersheds, the industry pays more workers more wages, and operates on more invested capital than any other business in Canada. But in the new Canada the venerable giant, in pace with headlong progress, has gone streamlined...
...subject. His sketch for the first of two 46-ft.-high murals for U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (opposite) is a prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...
Last week, less than twelve hours before Dr. Astin's firing was to become effective, "Sinny" Weeks changed his mind, and his headlong approach to the problem in the Bureau of Standards. He had decided, he announced, that Dr. Astin should stay on for two or three months, while a committee from the National Academy of Sciences studies both the bureau and the AD-X2 case and makes a report. Added Weeks, in a hasty turnabout: "At no time has there been any intent ... to cast reflection upon the integrity of the bureau or the professional competence or integrity...
Jockey Tony DeSpirito's headlong drive on the record for winners ridden in one year took on all the suspense of a movie serial last week. As 18-year-old Tony came closer & closer to the record mark, people who had never seen a horse race were asking: "Will he make it?" Tony did, getting in under the wire in the last race at Tropical Park on the next-to-last day of the year. On New Year's Eve, as a clincher, Tony rode Winner No. 390, two more than the longtime record...
...indicts him for amateurish strategy throughout most of the war. British Commander Howe "outmaneuvered Washington repeatedly and won battle after battle"; with more boldness, he might have won the war. Only two American generals win Ward's unqualified approval as battle leaders: Benedict Arnold, who led troops with "headlong energy . . . intrepidity and dash," and Nathanael Greene, who showed himself a master of guerrilla tactics in the southern campaign after Horatio Gates proved a fiasco...