Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, representatives of the U.S., Britain, France and the Benelux countries have been meeting in London's drafty, sepulchral India House. Their problem sounded simple. Western Germany, with its coal and iron resources, is Europe's industrial heart, on whose soundness the Marshall Plan, and Europe's future, depend. Since the Russians have consistently sabotaged every four-power action that would give Western Germany (or any part of Germany) the political organization and the economic incentive to go to work for Europe's benefit, the Western powers had to see what they could do by themselves...
...account, Painter Kyosai was a problem child. He disliked cakes and toys, liked paddling after frogs. His first studied drawing, he recalled, was a frog he sketched in 1834-at the age of three...
...thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler who built a front line of defense against the Anti-Christ of Communism . . . Think what it would mean to the world if Hitler surrendered to God . . . Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last bewildering problem...
Ralph Cross, who is blind, was faced with an unusual problem: his Seeing Eye dog was going blind, too. Ethel, a German shepherd, had been Cross's faithful guide for seven years. Six months ago cataracts dimmed Ethel's eyes; she began bumping into things, and Cross could no longer trust her in Los Angeles' heavy traffic...
...Actually I don't think it's a problem to be seriously concerned about," is Valpey's feeling, however. While complicated in its own right, the imported Michigan defense puts more emphasis on rushing than on the loops and waltzes of the bygone Harlow days. "Personnel idiosyncrasies change under different systems," Valpey points out and adds that "men will be playing in different positions next fall." On offense, the Michigan system and last year's melange have little in common except in certain phases of line-blocking, which should further confuse the picture...