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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of cars without Harvard registration stickers parked in the area has been increasing, however, a fact which may mean that students are removing stickers rather than moving cars. Captain Toohy warned yesterday that the license numbers of all cars without stickers, or with unreadable stickers, are being checked...
...irrigated Central Valley, spring soaked apricot trees, vineyards, alfalfa stands, tomato rows and the hopes of thousands of farmers. Sample casualty: the cotton grower, afraid that he would not be able to work his fields before the normal May 10 planting deadline; to work them later would mean the risk of bad weather during the fall picking season, lower-grade cotton, lower prices. Cotton was a $250 million crop in the valley last year...
People generally mean by propaganda that which influences others but not themselves. Constant emphasis on propaganda thus carries the prideful risk of regarding other people as more gullible than oneself. This little lesson came home to roost last week. For two weeks the U.S. Government had been living uneasily with the prospect that the U.S.S.R. would announce unilateral suspension of nuclear weapons tests. Last week, when Russia did, even Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conceded that Russia had scored "a certain propaganda victory, or at least, a success...
...secours that's wanted can be furnished by Americans-or Russians." And one need never again dread "the anguish of handing over a fistful of lire, conscious of being done but fearful to make a scene. Make scenes. You can be mean and haggling...
...days mean paydays/ And paydays mean better days/ So buy, buy!/ Something that you need today...