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...Indo-China, like all Gaul, is divided into three parts: Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Cambodia, the smallest, is about the size of Oklahoma...
...widowed and impoverished, Madame Albane de Siva had no Fairy Godmother, but she had always had very small feet. Last week when she read in Figaro that the shoemakers of Paris were holding a contest to nominate "Miss Cinderella of 1951"-the girl with the smallest feet-Madame de Siva left her tenement in Montmartre and jumped aboard the Pumpkin Coach...
...cell. In business, the tax structure, social security and pension plans promise to soften the blow of depression or personal misfortune-and forbid the building of new empires. In science there is the great corporation (or the Government) glad to furnish the expensive machinery now necessary for the smallest advance-and to give its name, or that of its group research boss, to the new process, while plowing back the profits. A man goes bounding, with no visible bruises, among the pads of an over-organized society...
...Band's officials had definitely made up their minds not to go when they realized that their treasury would show a deficit after this weekend's trip to Columbia. "But we decided to make one final try. We couldn't give up without taking every chance, even the smallest...
After the dismal morass of scandals into which college football sank this past summer, even the smallest act of sportsmanship in the gridiron game would be welcome. Thus the Holy Cross decision not to use freshmen when it plays against Harvard and Brown (who are following an Ivy League decision not to use them) seems encouraging out of all proportion to its importance...