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...make the going pleasanter, the Met will throw out what Director Francis Henry Taylor calls the "bronze grapefruit tree" lamps that flank the entrance, and the gingerbread decorations inside, will re-do the 25 formidable front steps so that they do not make people shrink and slink as they climb them. The giant tomb of Perneb, which stands like a road block before the Egyptian wing, will be tucked into place about two blocks away. The Met will also put in escalators for weary museum-feet, a new, airy restaurant for the hungry, a radio-broadcasting and television studio...
Bishop Oxnam does not shrink from plain speech. Catholics, said he, have called Protestants "intolerant" for demanding certain rights. But Protestants must continue to insist on these rights...
...European forces, now 2,780,000 strong, will shrink to 400,000. How many men will be required to police the Japanese islands, nobody knew; some guessed...
...deserved also, thank God, to have De Gaulle. The spirit of abandonment and the spirit of resistance-both are incarnated in Frenchmen, and these two spirits met in a duel of death. . . . Since the most modest among us shared the glory of the first resister, let us not shrink from the thought that a part of ourselves was an accomplice of that crushed...
...enough. With cutbacks in war production at hand, overtime is already becoming a thing of the past in many plants. For workers who have to leave war production to go back to civilian production, with its generally lower pay rates, the size of the pay envelope is likely to shrink even more. Only higher pay rates can keep Labor's weekly take-home pay from shrinking drastically...