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...costly attempt to save the Old World" has produced an unexpected reaction among the Europeans. "Today the exasperating European contempt for America is no longer the mere pastime of arrogant and more or less discountable British and Continental snobs." As Mr. Schlamm sees it, this contempt is a partial result of our Marshall Plan, to which the Europeans attributed "hideous and unspeakably sinister motives." Continental newspapers are unable to present the facts about American life because, in Schlamm's opinion, "the womens clubs of Walla Walla know considerably more about Europe than leading European editors know about the United States...
...third term (although it might conceivably give the President pause). But beginning with Mr. Truman's successor, it will allow no man to sit in the White House for more than two full terms, or, if he happens to come in through the vice-presidency for a partial term, for more than ten years-not even if the majority of the U.S. wants him there. The nation could, of course, repeal the amendment if it ever wanted another third-term President badly enough...
...rubber collar in the side. There was a guage attached to the box, and when the cat inhaled--expanding its lungs--the air in the box would be compressed and would cause the guage's pointer to rise. As the cat exhaled, there would be a partial vacuum in the box, and the pointer would fall...
Others didn't think the partial change would disturb things. "As long as they do the work, we'll be happy," said James Yule of Kirkland House. Fritz Rau, at Lowell, thought the porters would be "all right." He hopes they can be depended on as much as the maids, whom he feels are "steadier." Rau had students working under him before, as janitors. "Their work was good," he said, "when they worked. The trouble was that they'd often decide not to come...
...until a draft bill emerges from Congress. If that bill defers all college students, or if the Defense Department freezes R.O.T.C. allotments, expansion may became a dead issue. But if neither of these happens, a bigger R.O.T.C. unit would help carry the University through the first lean years of partial mobilization...