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Wilson once wrote a story about the way in which a mythical college selected its students. Each candidate was ushered into a room with a portrait of the University's first president on the wall and a ten-dollar bill on the floor. The admissions director, stationed behind the portrait, could observe the candidate's actions through the hollow eyes of the first president. If the applicant pocketed the bill, he was refused admission. If, on the other hand, he gave it over when the admissions director finally entered, he was accepted...
Needed is increased non-military help in addition to the present arms aid. Chester Bowles' experience in India demonstrated that best results in a technical aid program do not come with blatant give-away campaigns. More good was accomplished by the introduction of a ten-dollar modern plough than by a thousand dollars of free rice. And this is the policy that America should follow in Indo-China, as well as in other countries in like situations. The U.S. should attempt to maintain good will among the citizens of Indo-China by convincing them that America is interested in their...
...Miami convention standards, it was a quiet crowd. Business, grumbled a taxi driver, was "terrible. Them guys came to town with a ten-dollar bill and the Ten Commandments and they ain't busted one of them...
Five weeks ago University officials and the Cambridge City Council sat down together and talked about parking. They were trying to work out for good and all the problem which has kept police and students playing hide-and-seek for ten-dollar stakes ever since...
Dali emerged from the underbrush of ten-dollar words long enough to sneer knowingly at his contemporaries. "Modern artists are afraid because of their lack of technique," he said, "to face up to the dazzling perfection of the Renaissance . . . The Holy Mother of God is more important than a fruit bowl and a knife...