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Eisenhower has the will to end the Korean war in victory. A way to do that is very much in the realm of the possible. Between the will and the way perhaps months of preparation must elapse. But a world that is paying the cost of years of indecision will not begrudge such months...
...natural harbor endowed with deep rivers, estuaries and bays and rimmed by 770 miles of profitable piers and docks. Thirteen years ago New York handled 22% of all the tonnage shipped to & from the U.S. Today tonnage has slumped to 15%. Principal reason: the New York waterfront is the realm of hoods and racketeers, where a payoff is as casual as a Christmas card, where whole truckloads of merchandise can vanish, where watchmen never make an arrest, and where mobsters recruit musclemen who are still serving time in Sing Sing...
...addition to the benefits which his plan would give students, Dean Sturges pointed out that it would also help greatly to reduce costs to the Law School itself. "The law schools of the country are not in close enough accord with each other," he commented. "In the realm of teaching they are all attempting to have complete programs, thus causing an increase in the number of professors needed, and a rise in costs." The dean suggested that this problem could be alleviated if inter-school trading of specialized teachers was permitted. This would keep costs down and provide a richer...
...clowning to give a gentle, appealing and restrained characterization. Whether he flies a kite, sings to an inchworm, talks to a dog or transforms his thumb into a little girl, Kaye succeeds in conjuring up something of the charm of a child's storybook world: that magical realm of slippered kings, pouting princesses, dragons and serpents, flowers that waltz, and porcelain figures that fall in love...
...cool stone halls of the castle of Kerak, the barons of the realm feasted at damask-laid tables, and toasted their ladies to the music of Oriental minstrels, A wedding was being celebrated, the marriage of the child princess of Jerusalem to a young knight. Outside, the siege engines of a Moslem army hurled huge stones against the walls, and periodically, the guests left the banquet hall to fight for their lives on Kerak's battlements. Only the tower in which the bridal pair was staying was not touched by the enemy fire, on orders of the chivalrous Moslem...