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...main current of Texas politics is its displeasure with the confused mediocrity of present middle-of-the-road Texas government. Conservatives are successful in their attacks on the lack of direction of the price Daniel administration, in its failure to pursue much constructive legislation, and in its inability to surmount the growing problems of a constantly growing state...
...question or a proposition, so I got out of there as quickly as possible.'" Overseas visitors find only a few good directories in foreign languages listing tourist sights, hotel and restaurant prices, plane, train and bus facilities. The language obstacle is a formidable barrier to surmount, surpassed only by high prices...
...read Stookey's article, however, or Miss Gale's, or Krupnick's, you might begin to feel that the University can, in time, surmount these problems. For Stookey's article indicates the sort of long-range planning that can supplant the stop-gap measures popular at present; Krupnick's proposes a change in the administration of courses that could provide the undergraduate with greater insight into (and interest in) the process of education; and Miss Gale's shows that an administration can go a long way toward creating the essential "atmosphere of expectation...
Terrified Thanks. Whatever his end, De Gaulle had chosen as his means a kind of three-stage rocket designed to surmount the towering divisions and dissensions of present-day France. Stage I of De Gaulle's plan, which will precede the referendum, consists of a series of administrative reforms in Algeria. A High Commissioner for Algeria (probably tough-minded Education Minister Louis Joxe) will take office in Paris, but his Deputy Commissioner in Algiers itself will be a Moslem. (Reportedly, two prominent Moslems have already been sounded out about the job and have declined with terrified thanks.) The political...
...toils now for the sake of later satisfaction; he doesn't wrangle with others whose lot is better; in times of adversity he can straighten up and carry on; he has the greatest determination and a stature that riches cannot corrupt, poverty cannot change and terror cannot surmount...