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Train the Remnant. Last week, as it began its 88th year, Clarke was already embarked on a centennial fund-raising campaign for $3,000,000. At the head of the campaign was another distinguished former board president and teacher, who met her future husband while she was on the faculty. In spite of the high place to which marriage took her, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has remained devoted to Clarke. "I never hear a deaf child," she once wrote, "that my heart does not go out to it. I breathe a prayer that fortune may favor it by bringing...
...oversensitiveness (surely immature) when a guide in Niagara's Cave of the Winds called: "Let the old fellow go first." And he notes that Freud unfairly blamed rich U.S. food for intestinal trouble that actually antedated his visit by several years, and was probably a psychosomatic remnant of his earlier neurosis. "I often said to myself," Freud once wrote, "that whoever is not master of his Konrad should not set out on travels." There is no doubt that Freud suffered while in the U.S. from both chronic appendicitis and prostatic discomfort. In connection with his prostatitis, which necessitated frequent...
...free ingathering of Jews from everywhere is a proposition basic to the heart and soul of Israel. But last week through Jerusalem's streets marched hundreds of dark-skinned Jews from North Africa, solemnly brandishing banners that read, "Oh, Lord, Save Thy People, Remnant of Israel." Among the onlookers, one expressed what many felt: "It is bad enough that Jews should be begging their own institutions for action. It's even worse that we don't all feel like joining...
...lords' new course of conquest. They decided to turn east, to capture Midway Island (1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor) and use this outpost as an advance base for Japanese air patrols. As naval strategists they calculated that the attack would draw out the last remnant of the U.S. fleet-including those annoying U.S. flattops that had escaped the Pearl Harbor massacre...
...make leaders hard to find, ideas scarce, and decisions difficult to make. ("This government," said one of the U.S. officials anxiously trying to help, "is stuck together by Scotch tape, bits of string and putty.") The French, striving to maintain by fair means and by sly means a remnant of influence and profit in the land they have exploited for seven decades, obstruct him with the wily rearguard maneuvers of colonialism...