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Columbia University last week gave a Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal for hemisphere service to Brazil's most potent publisher, small, dynamic, tack-sharp Dr. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand...
They seemed exhilarated by what they had done. Slapped on the back by a wellwisher, the U.A.W.'s tack-sharp Vice President Walter Reuther replied: "Just like old times...
...carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific Fleet staff. In Navy circles they were considered to be progressive thinkers. Assignment of men of their caliber indicated that the Navy might try a new tack. But there was no reason to believe that either Radford or Sherman, both naval aviators, would give an inch on the Navy's fixed opposition to a separate air force...
...rich tin mines and oil pools of The Netherlands East Indies had been prize loot for the Japanese. Dropping all such stolen property last month, the Japs took time to throw a sharp tack in the path of the former owners. On Java they granted independence to a "Republic of Indonesia." Its head: Dutch-educated Soekarno, 40, a longtime, long-winded nationalist orator...
...committee lawyers achieved one fine clause: ". . . to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors." But their ending would disgrace the corporate charter of a tack factory. They wrote that "We, the peoples" had spoken at San Francisco through "representatives . . . who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form...