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...future development of 'a child,' without an effort having been made to verify these predictions. Yet they are presented to parents as scientific facts, often with the implied or open threat that any neglect might injure the child and result in neurosis in the dim and dis tant future. Many child-psychology theorists talk with the voice of an oracle predicting future doom...
...bawl out people who send you condolences, and it is customary to thank people who send wreaths, even if the flowers are somewhat faded. I sketched what I felt, since I have never seen Stalin. I put all my efforts into producing a resemblance. Apparently it was not liked. Tant...
Next morning, when an astonished Secretariat inquired whether Party Member Picasso had uttered such heresy, Picasso denied having said tant...
Their approach to the five most impor tant economic problems shapes up as follows : DEFENSE. The Government's plan to ex pand the economy enough to superimpose war production on top of normal civilian production was sound, but In the helter-skelter expansion, contracts often went to inefficient or high-cost producers. Defense Secretary Wilson plans to shake out costly, inefficient production; he also hopes to step up the supply of arms without stepping up arms-spending. With the help of Eisenhower's own knowledge of military ways, Wilson expects to trim the fat out of procurement...
...Abadan refinery. Anglophobe Mossadeq agreed to a British boss for the British staff; he balked over Iranians taking orders from Britons. "But you can't run a show that way," cried Stokes. "You can only have one boss." Mossadeq rejected the argument with his favorite French phrase: "Tant pis" (tough luck...