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...Turkey. Last week, President Truman dealt in the U.S. - in a diplomatic way -by asking for a $400,000,000 loan to Greece and Turkey, accompanied by mili tary advisers and weapons (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The loud talk was all of Greece and Turkey, but the whispers be hind the talk were of the ocean of oil to the south...
...Marin, one of the few problems in painting is balance. "Think of the wonderful balance of squirrels," he told Helm. "They scratch themselves equally well with hind paws or fore paws without losing their balance. I like my pictures to have that kind of balance. ... I stand them up on their end, turn them upside down, until I see that, like the squirrels, they have got balance in every direction...
...James M. Landis. Others were officials of RFC, who had practically promised early this year to lend T.W.A. $60,000,000. But RFC was smarter than it had been when it sank $19½ million into Hughes's 750-passenger "Hercules." With the "Hercules" some two years be hind schedule, RFC's faith in Hughes was dwindling...
...body, then approximately 50,000 years old. Other frozen Pleistocene Age mammals had been found from time to time, but this one was so well preserved that half-chewed leaves and grasses still clung to its teeth. Its hide was covered with long, reddish-brown woolly hair. The hind legs measured nearly 50 inches from sole to knee, and weighed about 350 pounds each. The scientists had the "great satisfaction," one of them reported, of finding even the genitals "in the best possible condition. . . . We stood speechless in front of this evidence of the prehistoric world...
...suffered as he would not have done at home. His return voyage in rough weather got him down with seasickness. Also, for the sake of his party of friends, he had put up with something for which he had little enthusiasm-fishing. He caught a few bonitos, red hind and barberfish (red with blue dots), but he made his political advisers wince by frankly saying that he was no devotee of rod & reel...