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When Acting President Li Tsung-jen sent Dr. Kan Chieh-hou, his U.S.-educated (Wisconsin & Harvard) political adviser, off to Shanghai last week, Li hopefully quoted a proverb: "Absolute sincerity will open metal and stone." It was Dr. Kan's job to pick a delegation to plead with the Reds for peace...
...north, the 9th Division had taken Néhou. Veterans of Bizerte and Sicily, the men o f the 9th were now fresh from England, itching for more fight...
They got their chance; the 82nd was too spent to exploit its breakthrough. So while one regiment of the 9th pushed west from Néhou, through St.-Jacques, another regiment passed the tired 82nd, pushed through St.-Sauveur in a parallel thrust. The enemy's 77th Division put up a bitter rear-guard fight, was savagely cut up and broken; those who could, escaped -but the wrong way, to the north...
Your statement (TIME, Nov. 30,) "Natural gas ... is often disliked by hou: wives as it carbonizes more quickly, clogs stove burners, dirties pots and pans" endorses erroneous impression. Correctly burned, natural gas produces no more dirt than manufactured gas. The fallacy arises from the frequent misuse, for natural gas, of stoves designed for the lighter, quicker burning, manufactured gas Complaints also arise when stoves adjusted for natural gas are used for manufactured gas. The change in adjustment is easily made a gas companies which change over from man factured to natural gas usually send their 01 mechanics to adjust...
...Beauty, must hou always dwell afar...