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...matronly double chin. A bearded man and his wife sit holding hands in one of the very few Sumerian double statues ever found. A carefully carved woman is made of a translucent green stone not yet identified. Her face is of gold-a metal that was believed to possess purifying properties and was frequently used for the noblest parts of the sculptures, the face and the hands. As in so much of Sumerian art, the facial expressions of the statues tell a story of their own. Some of the worshippers are strained and goggle-eyed; others are composed and serene...
...while, the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission seemed to be the most unpopular top-level job in Washington: the AEC chairman must not only possess considerable administrative ability, along with scientific and technological know-how, but he must also be able to thread his way through highly emotional issues while keeping the U.S. on a straight, or at least a safe, nuclear course...
Norstad is not the only man dissatisfied with the idea that only the U.S. should possess the capacity for total atomic warfare; the Pentagon, Harold Macmillan, and Konrad Adenauer have all in one fashion or another complained of NATO's inability to do anything more than "blunt and delay" an enemy attack through its ground and air forces. These murmurings have had their results. Last November, Robert R. Bowie of the Center for International Affairs presented a report to Washington recommending that the U.S. (1) strengthen conventional non-nuclear forces in Europe, and (2) provide NATO forces with strategic nuclear...
...identification. What the blackmailed Muscovites feared was revealed in the columns of Moskovskaya Pravda, which stated ominously: "We assume the Anti-Speculation Squad will try to clarify how the victims accumulated such large sums. Speaking plainly, it is hardly usual for a store manager or a fur cutter to possess hundreds of thousands of rubles...
...only be regretted, how that 20th Century Week did possess as much value for the students body at large. One wishes that a complete synthesis of the inner of 20th Century Week and parts that were open to the could have been achieved. For the ject matter of the Week should been considered by the entire Harvard community, not only by the group of interested students probably would have given questions serious thought...