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...Belle Helene): in Agate's words, "to furbish up the old sparkle and avoid substituting a new one, to stick to the operette and to keep the thing French." The solution arrived at for "Albert Marre's production," as the current venture is billed, is to tinker and tamper and mess and fuss and fiddle and diddle and hope for the best. The result not surprisingly, is a galimafree, or, as we say in America, a hash...
...make no real concession at all on Berlin. For Berlin has become both a symbol and a vital test of the West's determination to resist Communist encroachment against the free world. The legal foundation on which Western possession of the city rests is complex and to tamper with it is risky. As De Gaulle observed during his visit to Canada last month: "If we do not want an easing of tensions, then we can try for a solution in Berlin. But if we want an easing, we must...
Some other witnesses violently opposed any policing of installment practices. Maintaining that "our credit system is too vital for the Government to tamper with," A. Leonidas Trotta, credit research director of the National Retail Merchants Association, argued that people expect to pay more when they receive the benefits of installment buying. Said he: "To give them too much information about financing costs would only befuddle them...
...others. Brinton framed the major issue of the times as: "orthodox or 'classical' economics, and what I'll call Keynesian or Galbraithian economics: . . . whether we are to let our present methods of production and distribution produce the kind of consumers' goods that annoy the intellectuals, or whether we will tamper politically so as to produce education, housing, hospitals, public transportation, which people ought to want...
...bouncing on a rough sea, and in two hours after launch, the destroyer Borie picked it out of the water Opening the capsule itself was no problem but Monkey Sam had to stay in his inner package for four hours more, because Bone's officers did not dare tamper with its mysterious workings and high seas prevented transfer of the package to the task force's mother ship. Finally, guided by radioed instructions, the Borie's men gingerly opened the package. They found Sam the monkey "alive and kicking...