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...explosives, or poisons. We have to be careful with radiation. It's not really very different," said one. Technicians at the accelerator need not wear dosage clips, but no job is without its peculiarities. At the C.E.A., nobody wears a wristwatch-the powerful magnets in the ring will quickly ruin a watch...
...association of rich and selfish countries. If we were to fall into this error, we would never be able to find our place in the world. We would be detested and hated, but let me tell you that we would also be stupid. Our countries must export ... If we ruin our clients, we ruin ourselves...
...growing unity of the nations around the North Atlantic must eventually include their schools. It is commonplace for a Frenchman to work making tires in Birmingham; the irony is that if his children go to school in Britain, they ruin their chances of entering French universities. Needed: commonly held standards that will permit secondary schools in any part of Europe to feed the universities of any other part. This fall, in a grand old castle in Wales, a school opened to work toward this goal by providing standards...
...prejudices to the New World with them. When the first Jewish immigrants arrived from Central Europe in 1860, they became targets for the landed aristocracy, which feared the industrious newcomers. Those old resentments were sharpened in the years after the fall of Dictator Juan Peron, whose policies brought ruin to Argentina's wheat-and-beef oligarchy. In the economic chaos, Argentina's Jewish colony, which now numbers 470,000, the largest in Latin America, still seemed affluent; Jews controlled a good share of the country's banking and finance, were even getting elected to Congress...
...expense of owners, though by applying to the Caisse de I'Amelioration de I'Habitat they can get loans to ameliorate their habitats. Publicly owned buildings and monuments are the government's responsibility. Says Minister of Culture Andre Malraux: "We cannot let our monuments fall to ruin when at this very moment Egypt is asking France to help save its temples on the Nile." Malraux having spoken, the Obelisk in the center of the Place de la Concorde (supposedly not cleaned since Ramses II had it inscribed in Luxor to the glory of Amon) is sporting...