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Other sources on Divinity Avenue saw the measure both as an economy move and as the result of a growing feeling that "human" Geography is out of place at Harvard. The subject became a concentration field...
Another group has shied away from helping to frame the best possible legislation because it is afraid the final result will somehow be less than perfect. Others complain that the whole recovery problem should go to the United Nations, where they hope that the Russians would be persuaded to agree with us. Still another powerful school of thought holds that we must wield European aid as a political weapon first and foremost, and that any possible economic benefits to the nations concerned are of relative unimportance. And there are only a few steps between this position and the belief that...
...Amsterdam, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced that it would forthwith equip all its planes with portable altars (including altar stone, crucifix, chalice, missal, altar cloths and a gold and purple chasuble). The innovation, said airline officials, was the result of numerous requests from air traveling priests...
Consumers were also beginning to cut down on food buying. As a result, the Wall Street Journal, surveying eleven cities, found most food sellers holding back, too. Said one Chicago storekeeper: "We don't know how much to buy now or how much to pay for it." No one was worried much yet. But businessmen were keeping an anxious eye on those soft spots...
...Connor's effects are the result of a highly skillful use of language. He finds his images in daily experience ("She had a sallow face that looked very innocent down the middle and full of guile round the edges like a badly ironed pillow case") and composes dialogue that is corrosively revealing...