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...communiqués never solve as much as they seem to, so optimism over the results was tinged with considerable caution. But by any reckoning, the meeting had at least got big-power collaboration started again. Now UNO could come on from the wings without having the curtain suddenly rung down on it. The peace-making could go forward...
...plans to take things easy in his new home, complete with swimming pool, in Los Angeles. Into his big shoes will step Executive Vice President George F. Ashby, 60, who went to work for U.P. in the engineering department 34 years ago. Like most railroaders, Ashby touched every rung on the way up, has been No. 2 man in U.P., and acknowledged crown prince, for a year...
...game fish are the topmost rung of a long fish-eat-fish biological ladder. At the bottom are one-celled organisms-bacteria, algae, protozoa-which form the prey of slightly larger creatures (tiny crustaceans). These get eaten by the next size creatures-and so on up the line...
...dramatic technique and swiftness of dialogue Elmer Rice has rung the bell with his new comedy, "Dream Girl," providing Betty Field with a long and complex part which she handles with admirable skill...
...first atomic bomb had been dropped. A few seconds after the flash, the shock wave from the blast reached the Enola Gay, several miles away, and rocked it like a giant burst of flak. From the men who had rung up the curtain on a new era in history burst nothing more original than an awed...