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...wrestling teams in recent Harvard history, the Yardlings proved they will be tough to beat for the rest of the season as they showed good men in seven of the eight positions. The Milton team although experienced in every class was no match for the Yardling spirit and wrestling know...
Greatest Step? In the clearest terms he had yet used, Bernard Baruch told A.E.C. why the U.S. would not yield its atomic know-how unless the control plan included specific guarantees against veto protection for violators. Baruch said that the A.E.C. recommendations would "die aborning" unless "all of the great powers" on the Council accepted them. He added: "It has been said that if a great nation decided to violate a treaty, no agreements, however solemn, will prevent such violation; that if a great nation does not have the right to release itself from its obligation by veto the result...
Producer de Rochemont, who made the first MARCH OF TIME (1934) and produced that series for almost a decade, uses his know-how as a documentary-maker to put realistic punch into his entertainment. Rue Madeleine begins with well-chosen scraps of newsreel, a commentator's voice, recognizable glimpses of actual Washington streets and buildings. By the time they are introduced, the actors (James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte. Frank Latimore) have already half won their make-believe battle. Concentrating on the fascinating business of learning how to be a spy, the movie wisely ignores phony romantic trimmings...
...Tarascan Indian, finally made good some of the revolution's promises of land for the landless. In six years he expropriated and apportioned to peasants 45 million acres, over twice as much as all his revolutionary predecessors. But corruption and a shortage of plows and tractors and know-how held production down...
...kinds, but we are receiving promises to pay and very little else from debtors whose ability to pay is questionable. Calling this trade is to perpetuate a myth. Trade consists in swapping something you have for something you want. We must supply capital goods . . . technical assistance and know-how to other nations to help them help themselves, and to strengthen their economies." (Westinghouse is now doing this by selling plans and know-how to China for a $35 million manufacturing plant...