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After reading the press comments on Mr. Dulles and his China policy [JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES-Oct. 13], I wonder if there are not still some who consider the wisdom and integrity of this man, who find his view logical and who prefer that principle not be diluted with expediency...
...Memoirs, it would seem that Montgomery never allowed himself much more. Having received the surrender of German forces at the end of World War II, he received the envoy of Marshal Rokossovsky, who wished to know his tastes before giving him a post-victory lunch? Which wines did he prefer? Montgomery was addicted to water. Cigars? He did not smoke. The Russian murmured that they had some women at headquarters available for VIPs. Monty was not interested: women were not his line...
...feasible in the College, there yet remain several less glamorous but nonetheless workable means for bringing student ideas into a lecture course. A section of seventy-five or eighty, such as has been tried in History 169, is not as unmanageable as it sounds--sixty people will prefer not to talk, and the others will ask their questions for them...
...than larger hounds, the beagle will not range too far afield of the hunter or frighten game too far ahead of the gun. Oldest upland game dog in the U.S. is the silky-coated English Setter. Northern hunters use this breed for grouse and woodcock while Southerners hunting quail prefer the shorter-haired Pointer...
...stabilization plan for sugar has worked reasonably well. But restrictions on metals present greater problems, largely because of wide variances in production costs. Canada is reluctant to enter a lead and zinc cartel because her mining economy is booming, would prefer a free market in which high-cost producers, such as in the U.S., would be eliminated. Says W. S. Kirkpatrick, executive vice president of Canada's Consolidated Mining & Smelting: "The only real cure is to reduce output by closing down the high-cost producing mines. The natural economic law of supply and demand should be allowed to work...