Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pygmy is a traveling salesman named Fernand Ravinel who has the face of a brute and the soul of a sparrow. His mistress, Dr. Lucienne Mogard. is as cold and sharp as a scalpel. When they entice Ravinel's wife Mireille to Nantes, their object is murder and their motive is 2,000,000 francs of insurance money. As a killer, Ravinel proves tender and compassionate. After Mireille drinks a carefully prepared potion, her eyes close and Ravinel tearfully helps to lower her inert body into a bathtub full of water. "Don't worry, Mireille," he says...
Some solution must come. The refugee commissioner for the UN has repeatedly asked for more liberal immigration policies and renewed support for an IRO to coordinate actions. But many nations object to any infringement of their sovereignity and will resist any type of centralized authority. Yet if the problem is not attacked anew it will only mean the continued suffering of millions, and a weakening of the West's united front against communism...
...buying power. Furthermore, at Procter & Gamble and other companies, wage guarantees have cut labor turnover, and thereby lowered other costs. The problems in steel, autos, appliances, etc. are far greater. But the success of plans already instituted by far-seeing businessmen, without the prodding of labor, should be an object lesson for those who will soon be prodded by labor for similar plans...
...from opposing enterprise and originality in business, we applaud the promotion agency who concocted this farce. If it works, it will be a tribute to American ingenuity. However, we object to the use of the House Dining Halls for the distribution of advertising leaflets, as we almost had indigestion today snickering over them. Stephen Lowey '55 Howard W. Barnes...
...Congeniality is the basis of the club," Jameson says. "But," he adds, "our object is not just to sit around and gobble cheese. Like gourmets we're learning to appreciate the cheese and its historical background," he says...