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Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson, defending the Administration's policy, declared: "It may be that at some future time the United Nations will be organized and equipped so as to render emergency aid." The time, he intimated, was not now. "Even if some organ of the United Nations should decide to recommend assistance to Greece and Turkey, it would have eventually to turn primarily to the United States for funds and supplies and technical assistance. Even if the project were not blocked by the objections of certain members of the United Nations, much time would have been lost...
Elaborate production of the scene at the court of the Dauphin will include velour curtains suspended from a cantilever structure in the student balcony over the stage to render an effect of height and richness. A large throne has also been put together for the Dauphin's court...
...Freeman used to render his soles in the "hesitation" style, i.e., he would pause every three or four bars to think up a new idea, and this procedure made his work come out like a patchwork quilt. The new post-war model is smoother and more continuous. When not given to abandoned flights of the imagination and on tunes which are not so fast and gusty that they shake the instrumentalists out of all their ideas before the record is half through, Freeman's acrid, trembling tone and curious phrasing can, as in this case, produce tasteful and distinctive music...
...even conceivable that by next Christmas (if he survives this winter), this child and millions like him will have covering, as well, for the heads which must try to restore sanity to the world; the hands with which that world must be rebuilt; the knees on which to render gratitude...
Since many of the "best brains" are being lured away from the campus by the siren call of more money elsewhere, how can school incomes be raised to provide better salaries? Raising interest rates throughout the Nation would render university endowments and investments more profitable, but the only fair criteria for such an action would be its effect upon the Nation's economy. Hiking tuitions, which at Harvard account for 29 percent of University income, would also provide increased revenue, but a host of new problems even more fundamental to education than faculty salaries would arise...