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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collaborators in a production must feel that they are partners and not servants--and I don't mean just the people with big parts. Everything hangs on everybody. Hence the need for a flexible attitude. Of course the director must criticize--and he shouldn't spare the actors. But he must not criticize them for anything that they can't help or change...
There the youthful-appearing (45) new president of the A.B.A., Charles S. Rhynne of Washington D.C., added his piece to that of his seniors: "What do we mean by freedom under law? We mean acknowledgment of the fact that there are moral limitations on civil power. We mean that human beings have rights, as human beings, which are superior to what may be thought to be the rights of the state or of society. It is the truth exemplified in the Magna Carta and in the American Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights...
...that the West was deliberately sabotaging the London negotiations by tying disarmament issues to German reunification in a "deal" simply to help the Adenauer government win reelection. He threw in a gratuitous hint that the nuclear warfare against the British, "in view of their geographical and economic conditions, would mean irremediable catastrophe...
Britain's reduction in her military force will mean more than the loss of storied regiments and colorful uniforms and customs. Some 7,000 officers and 60,000 other ranks who had made the military their career must now earn their wages in "civvy street...
...current 1957 crop well beyond the 28.15? per Ib. price he set last February. The net effect, as Under Secretary of Agriculture True D. Morse wrote the House and Senate Agriculture Committees a fortnight ago, will be to encourage farmers to produce more cotton, which in turn will mean a higher surplus and one that will be even more expensive to dispose of abroad. Each additional penny of price supports will cost $25 million more in cotton export subsidies. Said Morse: "With the formulas in the present law, our success in moving surplus No. 1 will set the stage...