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...Sometimes," he admitted, "they go astray. They quarrel and cut each other's heads off, which are deplorable occurrences that should be stopped. But even so, it strikes me as perhaps a little better than the more evil practices that prevail in cities." For himself, said the Prime Minister, he "would prefer any day to be a nomad in the hills than be a member of the stock exchange and sit there and listen to those frightfully ugly noises...
...allies want to preserve occupation laws which prohibit a revival of cartels; the Germans consider this an unacceptable limitation on their sovereignty. Compromise: occupation laws will prevail until the West Germans pass their own decartelization laws. If the Germans start fudging, the allies can summon a five-member international board whose decisions will be binding...
...welfare of the American people." Harriman, the pleasantly haggard millionaire who has been a New-Fair Dealer since he became an NRA administrator in 1934, stepped forward to do his best. He spoke in loud, firm tones: "Foreign and domestic policies are indivisible ... If the voices of hesitation prevail, we would destroy what we have built and we would be on the road to World War III ... The Republicans never change, they voted against everything that has made this country strong in the last 20 years." But as Candidate Harriman sat down to polite applause, no blazes of political fervor...
Though friendly informality, casualness, and a relaxed atmosphere prevail at Sarah Lawrence at all times, some students find themselves with nothing to do on weekends. Although some Saturdays and Sundays feature jazz concerts, films, athletic events, and house or all-college parties, a group of girls are trying to organize more activities for the weekends. Biggest social events of the year are the Freshman-Sophomore and Junior-Senior Proms, which attract invaders from all Eastern men's colleges...
...Republican Newbold Morris has been having a terrible time with a similar embarrassment-a connection (TIME, March 17) with the Chinese tanker scandal. But when he sat down last week to be questioned by Senate investigators, he seemed determined to keep cool, smile, smile, smile, let superior reason (his) prevail, and thus sweep all before him. Result: he alternated between anger, self-pity, exaggerated politeness and flippancy...