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Tutorial is not designed to plug gaps in a student's courses, in preparation for Generals. But a lessening of the discrepancy between tutorial and his courses would make both more meaningful...
...Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) will meet in November to nominate Mexico's next President. The constitution prevents Ruiz Cortines from running again, but his will be the most important voice in choosing P.R.I.'s candidate. The dedication marathon was a semifinal bow by the President and a splendid plug for whomever P.R.I, picks as his successor...
...there is humor too-often right in the midst of misfortune, as in what might be called "Coming Home from the Funeral." And there is small-boy adventure, whether with girls or tram rides or being sent to the tobacconist's for "an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug." O'Casey everywhere respects the dignity of childhood as a full existence in itself, as he recaptures a boy's hazy sense that a world offered by Victorian grownups as square is, all the same round...
...mother-providing a resonant voice box, I Knock at the Door wisely puts adroit storytelling ahead of theatrical effect. If four walls and a passion can make a good play, almost as much can be had from six chairs and a prose style; and an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug can be worth a pound of routine theatrics...
...content to stop there. Just as today's military radar sets, bombing systems, and automatic pilots are so fantastically complex that they must be removed and sent back to the factory for maintenance, so tomorrow's new radar ranges, electronic dishwashers and color TV consoles will have plug-in motors and control units that only factory experts will repair with special tools and special knowledge. The major labor the U.S. repairman will be called upon to perform-at his $5-an-hour fee-will be to take out a nonfunctioning unit, plug in a substitute and ship...