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...this is merely the idea of some Brockton sporting goods outfit, all well and good. But if Al Weill and the others who think for Rocky outside the ring really believe this-and intend to see it come true-there are going to be some badly butchered faces before the present heavyweight champion of the world retires undefeated...
...look down. "If we cut imports too far," he said, "great [downward] adjustments become necessary in our production and in our whole standard of living. But we cannot indefinitely go on importing what we cannot pay for, and I must tell the House quite frankly that it may come to this-and a tragically bad day it would be for us, for Europe, and for the world's best hopes of prosperity...
Down the Drain. There were further experiences of this kind, more run-ins with the "power-drunk sadists" of the NKVD. One day Gershgorn "sprang up in sudden fury and rushed at me, screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water...
...country's economy. If they don't export, they don't eat. This fact is lost sight of in some of the arguments heard here in America." The important question is whether Pleader Phillips is right or wrong about the effect of Empire preference. The objection to this-and to import licensing, export controls, cartels and bilateral deals -is that they are all barriers which will reduce the total amount of world trade and everybody's absolute share in it, including that of Britain. Setting the world back to the trade conditions...
...parts of his Come In, for instance. When he goes limpingly, as he does on many pages of his book, it is less because of his age than because he has come more & more to favor his worst poetical fault-his rascally independence, based on preternatural selfesteem. When full of this-and he is only occasionally entirely free of it-Frost writes like a wise man ensconced in a pickle...