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...understand the screenwriters' efforts to scrape the tarnish from poor Launcelot's soul. And it is clear that they had to pare down the number of characters wandering through the story to keep within the limits of the CinemaScope screen. But when only a lean-faced Mel Ferrer, a sullen Ava Gardner, and a Frank Merriwellish Robert Taylor remain, disappointment tends to creep in. All that keeps the audience from leaving their seats are the colorful sword-swinging battle scenes between regiments of Round Table rivals and the single-handed heroics of Robert Taylor's Launcelot...
Because official Washington felt that forecasts of excise tax cuts might cause a buyers' strike, Speaker Martin's statement was considered premature. Nonetheless, the Administration clearly expects Congress to pare $1 billion off the Eisenhower budget and then cut excise taxes a balancing billion along the line drawn by Martin...
...further pare government expenditures, the Chamber of Commerce wants to climinate all grants to the states for old age and public welfare assistance and unemployment compensation. Under the present system, federal aid is given the state program in proportion to the per capita wealth of the states, the poorer receiving more aid than the richer. Discontinuing federal support would probably have no serious effect on the richer states, but the poorer states would be forced either to give up their social insurance programs completely, or at least to curtail them drastically...
permitted to finess the elementary survey course and pare their graduates thoroughly. In these fields there is no reason why an exceptional student should not be permitted to finess the elementary survey course and plunge into more advanced work during his freshman year...
...With manufacturers' inventories at a record $45 billion, some manufacturers have started to pare down. Ford is warning its suppliers to buy raw materials only three months in advance of production, instead of five...