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Library workers discovered the next morning that the water had seeped into Room D, where it soaked some manuscripts, and then passed through the floor into the public card catalog room. Prompt action, however, saved all of the manuscripts and about seven-eighths of the cards from permanent damage, according to Miss Haskins...
Most of Mendes-France's important actions during his Premiership were undertaken to meet grave foreign policy crises facing France during 1954. Indochina, German rearmament, and North Africa all demanded prompt decision; probably no French political leader but Mendes-France would have approached them with such determination. His real concern, however, was with economic problems. Foreign policy was an unfortunate diversion, keeping him from his ambitious project of clearing the deadwood from French industry and agriculture. Largely, Mendes-France's fall was due to the personal hatreds and the petty politics of some members of the National Assembly. Mendes-France...
...unbearable burden," wrote one Italian professor. "Our narrow old streets keep traffic down to a snail's pace, but any thought of widening them is quashed by the magical words, 'historical atmosphere.'" A suggestion for turning the whole Appia area into a great park met the prompt disapproval of a former police chief who knew the difficulties of keeping down crime in Rome's parks. "What wouldn't go on," he asked, "in a new park of many thousand acres on the city's outskirts...
...haven't got the order yet so I don't know whether it's mandatory or just a suggestion, but naturally we will act accordingly if the situation needs prompt attention," Baldwin added...
...self-respecting throng would have been checked by such a shout. What I did say, among other things, was that if the noise should continue, it would ruin the lecture for others; it is only a difference in tense, but it substantially affects the meaning. The reasons was prompt and cooperative, and all of us who heard Mr. Toynbeo's lecture are in debt to those who accepted their disappointment and left quietly. McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...