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...kidnapping (TIME, Dec. 21) were thus merely reappearing last week in fresh forms. The central reality behind all was merely that China has approached a point at which her leaders are considering open war with Japan, and they know that no Chinese leader can make even a partial success of such a war without Communist support from two sources:1) Chinese Communists and 2) the Soviet Union...
...total shadow that extends out into space from the night side of Earth is a slightly tapering cone. The partial shadow, or penumbra, is a slightly spreading cone. Earth did not swing directly between moon and sun last week, and the moon slid through the penumbra. Appulses of this kind are astronomical curiosities because an average of 85 occurs in a century, whereas total and partial eclipses (in which the moon passes wholly or partly through the cone of total shadow) happen almost twice as frequently. About twelve appulses in a century are, like last week's, conspicuous...
Because the Federal Housing Administration is a partial guarantor of modernization loans made by banks under Title I of the National Housing Act, Mike Pecoraro's methods came under Federal scrutiny. His methods were simple. A short, smartly-dressed man with a police record as a forger and thief, Mike would walk into a branch of big National City or Manufacturers Trust, submit an FHA loan application signed by Otto Corneau (or one of 18 other names) with his right hand and the wife's name penned with his left. Then he returned to a rented apartment, waited...
...partial solution would be to limit the number of graduate students to just those men serving as tutors, unless, after full consideration of undergraduate applications, rooms were still vacant...
...always thought it depended on the kind of kisses. I've always been partial to politicians and little old ladies who knew me when...