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...tense interplay between governments last week, details assumed great importance. One such detail was the fact that rifles-not machine guns-were used to fire warning shots over the heads and at the feet of the rioters. Others: no tear gas was used; food was regularly delivered to the prisoners, even when some of them went on a two-day hunger strike...
...Democratic. Home Town muses on 1) the small town amid the moving pageant of the seasons, the varied U. S. regions-corn country, cotton country, coal country; 2) the town boy lured by the city, the city man's wistful memory of his old home; 3) the interplay of life with life among people who know each other well. Something of the old Winesburg mystery glows through his gentle prose. But now the musings are less those of a rebel paint manufacturer, fed up with it all, than those of a small-town editor, himself jest folks...
...year of college the intellectual interests of a group of students are most diverse, and our method of education continues to intensify this diverslfication. The specialization of each individual does not necessarily sabotage the ideal of a liberal arts college. If the proper conditions exist for student life, the interplay of divergent viewpoints makes for the most liberal and stimulating atmosphere possible...
These three components are mixed in various proportions in different people, and they seem to correlate, roughly but by no means exactly, with the endomorphic, mesomorphic and ectomorphic physical components, in that order. The nature and degree of the correspondence, and its interplay with environmental factors, says Sheldon, are questions for the future...
...accusations, brickbats of propaganda, bolts of protocol. The campaign was far less spectacular but far more important than the local Boxer Uprising. By last week the three burning unknowns in the truly World War were Russia, Japan, the U. S. Japan's diplomatic offensive touched off an intricate interplay which threatened to put the U. S. in a position where it must fight a naval war or resort to appeasement in the Pacific...