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...better evidence. In April he will study the steep slopes of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl (pronounced Po-po-ca-tay-petal and Eesta-see-wattle), the peaks hanging over the Valley of Mexico. He believes that the valley was covered by a high-level lake during the prehistoric rainy spell. If this is true, there should be beach formations high up on the slopes, and Dr. de Terra may find more proof of human activity in Mexico...
Paradise Preserved. Even the Japanese, apparently, had fallen under the spell of "the land where the angels fly low." Dutch troops came upon two happy veterans of Bali's flourishing prewar artists' colony: Belgian Adrien Jean Le Mayeur, 66, and Swiss Theo Meier, 38. They told no harrowing stories of hunger sieges, frozen feet or welted backs. Painter Le Mayeur had lived through the war in a tile-floored seaside villa overhung with purplish-pink bougainvillea blossoms. His studio was a garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok...
Between now and then, Russia may have another lucid spell. But the reasonable periods have been getting shorter, the truculent spells more violent...
...customers and American business in general. An 18½?-an-hour wage increase . . . must result in higher prices for steel than have previously been proposed by the Government. Great financial harm would soon follow for all users of steel. . . . Such a high and unjustified wage scale might well spell financial disaster for many of the smaller steel companies and for a large number of steel fabricators and processors. The nation needs the output of these companies...
This artistic integrity--rarely to be found in the theatrical world-may spell the doom of the production financially. For the opinion of the Shubert's audience Wednesday seemed to be a conglomerate lack of understanding, appreciation, or even interest, all of which seems to point away from the direction of box office success...