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...even Ben Franklin. Last week Moscow's trade union paper Trud took a tuck in the tail of his kite. Said Trud, in effect: Ben was just wasting his time in that thunderstorm, back in 1752. He could have saved himself trouble and danger* by dropping a postcard to St. Petersburg where Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov had proved, a year before, that lightning is electricity...
...ragged slum in which French Canadians cling to "a mode of life tenaciously wedded to the past and resistant to all progress, obstinately refusing any kind of change for the reason that all change was brought about by outsiders." Unlike the rest of Quebec City's picture-postcard prettiness, St. Sauveur is a wretched place: its proletarian "mulots" are ignorant and desperately poor, its bourgeois "soyeux" (silken ones) often bigoted and pretentious...
...details of Anglo-American general strategy without delay. ... I have taken steps to ensure [my wife's] ignorance and, in view of her youth and political illiteracy, it is impossible for her to entertain the smallest suspicions. . . . [But] I suggest that the method of communicating by blank postcard should be discontinued...
Liberal Union and AVC officials are submitting to Provost Buck today the results of a postcard poll sampling the effects of a tuition increase on undergraduates, despite the prediction of an assistant to the Provost that it will probably have less influence than "the hard facts of the University's financial picture...
...last minute effort to persuade the Corporation to keep tuition as near as possible to the present level, the Liberal Union and the American Veterans Committee today sent postcard questionnaires to ten percent of the College on the expected effects of the proposed hike...