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...Shawcross maintains, the entire issue had been eclipsed in the world's short memory by newer and more fashionable tragedies. Though the author takes scrupulous pains to acknowledge the genuine accomplishments of the international agencies, he concludes that throughout one of the largest relief efforts in history nearly all the governments involved "used humanitarianism as a fig leaf for either the poverty or the ruthlessness of their politics." Founded on a basis of meticulous research, his book is, in the end, an elegy to good intentions ill directed and a cry of conscience on behalf...
...newer companies as well as for A T & T, selling is the order...
...League leader in compact shelving definitely seems to be Princeton, which last spring added a second annex library with compact shelving to hold 500,000 books. The newer annex, in the basement of Fine Hall, the mathematics building, complements the now half-full 400,000 volume capacity Smith Library, which is located four miles away from the main campus...
...renovated, North House, built in the late 40s,would be the only exception to the College's push to renovate pre-World War II buildings, according to Quinn. "North House posed real problems because the dinning hall was too small, and it is the oldest of the newer buildings," he said...
...controversy centers on ships like the maroon-hulled Vulcanus I, a converted oil tanker, and its newer sister, Vulcanus II, which operate in the North Sea. Both of them are owned by Waste Management Inc., an Illinois-based disposal Goliath. Over the past decade, Vulcanus I has conducted test burns in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Vulcanus II was set to begin commercial operations in the gulf, where the ship's giant furnaces were to reduce thousands of tons of liquid poisons to harmless vapor. To broaden the burn program, the Maritime Administration backed...