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...Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind...
Like the fabled blind men of Indostan, two Senators and a Representative last week dropped by SHAPE headquarters near Paris for a chat with General Eisenhower, then failed utterly to agree on what they observed. Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson was convinced that Ike is a Republican: "I didn't ask . . . I've known him a long time. When you know a man well, you don't feel it necessary to ask." North Carolina's Democratic Senator Willis Smith thought the elephant looked more like a Democratic donkey: "I got no impression from General...
Stockholders sat down last week to look over the earnings reports for the first half of 1946. Like the blind men of Indostan who went to see the elephant what they "saw" depended on what part of the animal they examined...
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