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...Assumptions. From the outset, the plan was based on assumptions that were more hopeful than realistic. One assumption was that the Indian peasant would somehow produce more than he has in the past...
...country forced itself to laugh. Sputnik puns flourished, and even official responses attempted, at the outset, to dilute the Soviet achievement. Both the President and ex-Secretary Wilson tried to minimize the significance of the innovation, but the public found its sense of humor dampened by something that seemed like anxiety but couldn't be; America had never troubled itself over the technological advances of her rivals. Her superiority was too great, her talent too secure...
Goodie Knight's decision came after weeks of vowing that he would fight Knowland to the death. But Knight, a careful calculator of political odds, was alarmed from the outset by the unsmiling, formidable presence of Bill Knowland in the race against him. Recent polls, showing Knowland far ahead, sent Knight to the edge of withdrawal. Pressure from powerful fellow Republicans did the rest...
...Harvard-Radcliffe CRIMSON. Few 'Cliffites are concerned about the names and it would be unfortunate if the Annex Administration insisted on putting this stumbling block in the way of a worthwhile proposal. We can assume, however, that a newlyformed joint organization would select a dual name at its outset. Of course, any existing group wishing to revise its title could...
...musical comedy Rumple is not really so absurd as its title would suggest. That title, it might be well to explain at the outset, is also the name of a newspaper comic strip character who, for some unclear reason, comes to life to haunt his creator. The fact that Rumple is invisible to everybody else in the cast provides Irving Phillips' book with its main source of humor. Though scarcely original, the joke is still intermittently funny...