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...Moreover, no previous Government in British political history has ever lasted for more than four years on as slim a lead as the Conservatives now have and then triumphed at the polls. Labourites are banking on precedent. They are also hoping that U.S. Republican victory in 1952 will prompt Britishers to redress the political balance on their side of the Atlantic in favor of socialism. Indeed, some Socialists have complained to their constituents that the one reason why President Eisenhower finally agreed, when he did, to Churchill's long-standing proposal for Big Four talks was because he wanted...
What Henri did was to galvanize a host of painters into facing their native material in their own way, thus giving to realism a fresh meaning and vitality. "Without Henri's and Sloan's prompt and relentless efforts," said one of Henri's former students, "art in America would have imbibed its 'Mickey Finn' of complacency, slept on, hobbled on, sinking lower and lower . . . sugary and perfumed with the heavy odor of preservatives...
...first race, Robert Dear, unpicked by any other handicapper in the Boston area, romped home third and brought in $125. Prompt Boy won the second going away, paying $42.50 to show. Anon, Clocker's best bet, came in second to match this earning in the eighth, but Little Ferd, and in-and-outer, ahead at the half-mile mark in the fourth, dropped...
...race-Prompt Boy-For the double 4th race-little Ferd-has the speed to take...
...Knowledge can be a more potent force than ignorance in keeping cancer victims from seeking prompt treatment. Of 314 Britons (mostly women), half had delayed going to a doctor for more than three months after symptoms appeared, and one-fourth had delayed more than a year. Regardless of intelligence, those who did not suspect that they had cancer delayed less than those who feared that they had. Doctors in the U.S. have reported opposite results...