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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This low-cost luxury flowed from no horn of plenty. It resulted from an Alice-in-Wonderland exchange situation. The official exchange rate is 6.5 Peruvian soles for one U.S. dollar. But because there are not enough dollars at this rate to meet the need, the visitor can sell his travelers' checks on the free market (which is not illegal) for anywhere from 10 to 20 soles...
...Miracles: "Modern man, with his thought shaped by scientific investigation, is certain that miracles ... do not happen, Only figuratively can the blind receive their sight, or the lame be made to walk, or the lepers be cleansed. . . . Without a doubt, the need to jettison the miraculous element in the New Testament . . . weakens the reliability of the gospel narratives; and, insofar as Christian teaching has been built upon the power of Jesus to perform miracles, and upon the miracles associated with His birth and death, it calls for a drastic refashioning of such teaching...
...When the Communists are ready . . . there will be 50 Pearl Harbors . . . atomic explosions erasing our cities. . . . The Communists have germ warfare already. . . . The cholera plague in Egypt is suspected abroad of being a Soviet experiment.*. . . The next countries [the Russians] intend to grab are Italy and France. . . . They need France as a base to attack Great Britain, . . . American diplomats inside the curtain are under Russian guard day & night. . . . Trained Communist spies are among us locating targets for the sneak attack. . . . We must start rearming...
Expansion in the permanent staff of the Music Department, a need which A. Tillman Merritt, associate professor of Music and chairman of the department, described as becoming "increasingly great with the growing number of students who have been coming here for the study of music" will result from the gift...
English One coupled with Jaeger's "Man and Society in Greek Thought" points inescapably to the need for a broad approach to Romance Literature through a course aimed specifically at non-concentrators. This need has long been conspicuous to the humanities student unacquainted with French or Spanish but nonetheless anxious for a glimpse at Latin culture...