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Glass in the Pocket. Dr. Fuller's well-padded pocketbook has allowed him to move fast when he sees a bargain. What makes his position enviable and almost unique among U.S. museum men is that, as unpaid director and one of the principal backers of the museum, he can run his show as he pleases. As an aid to on-the-spot decisions, he always carries in his pocket a 14-power geologist's magnifying glass, noting that "in some ways both art and geology are a matter of trained observation." One peek into the top of some...
What Benson did not say was that in Iowa, as in other drought-ridden states where a man makes a decision with an eye on the weather and a hand on his pocketbook, thousands of canny farmers are treasuring options that will permit them to withdraw their land from the soil bank by July 20 if they change their minds. Reason: if enough rain falls before that date, many will go ahead with their crops in anticipation of a higher per-acre income than the soil bank would pay (an average of $44 an acre) if the crops were plowed...
...shuffle of ballots, one item of striking significance was widely overlooked-in a vote dominated by pocketbook considerations, the Republicans had come close to running the Democrats a dead heat! The booming prosperity since 1954 has strengthened further the Republican economic appeal . . . The chief Republican liability [i.e., the stigma of depressions] has been ebbing-just how fast is the question that probably will decide the 1956 election...
Also left behind, but then unpublished, was his last work, a translation of still another of the world's great books. The Great Dialogues of Plato have now been made available to U.S. readers in a paperback edition, tailored neatly for the pocket as well as the pocketbook. Classicists may continue to give their allegiance to the translation of Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), but the plain reader will find that Rouse has given him a great legacy of philosophy in language that hews to simple clarity...
...Heart & Pocketbook. As a witness, Defendant King argued that the boycott began spontaneously, that he had not instigated it but had become its spokesman after it had already developed. It did not take Judge Carter long to hand down his verdict (King had waived a jury trial): King was found guilty, fined $500, assessed $500 in court costs, and released on bond pending appeal. The crowd flowed out in front of the courthouse, surrounding King and his wife. A gold-toothed woman shouted: "We ain't going to ride the buses now for sure." A middle-aged woman told...