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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Service Pays. Six months ago the Polish storekeeper, plagued by discriminatory taxes and unable to replenish his stocks, was a member of a dying class. Today several thousand private shops are flourishing. Private individuals have taken over bankrupt state catering establishments, opened restaurants and cafes, and by substituting service for the state attitude that the customer is always wrong, are making them pay. In Warsaw private enterprise is building a new market, a new shopping center, and the city's first private department store since...
...mere count of the fingers reveals twenty thousand miles covered...
...increasing emphasis on commercial success has become detectable among the local drama groups, and the cult of success is made necessary by the fact that the productions are growing ever more grand and elaborate. The recent Harvard Dramatic Club staging of Hamlet had a budget of well over four thousand dollars, a figure which is by no means exceptionally large. Unfortunately even when these expensive productions get their outlay back at the box office, the result from an artistic point of view more often than not does not justify the expense...
Four hundred thousand strong, the Army and Air National Guards are the nation's most important reservoir of military manpower. It is the force the nation would depend on for second-line defense in case of an all-out war. Charlie Wilson's statement branding the National Guard as a "draft-dodging business" and the subsequent roar of protest have oversimplified the problem of reorganizing the Guard and intergrating it into the nation's defense system...
...made by each department on the basis of the thirty-three formal half-courses completed (thirteen in the freshman year, including General Education Ahf; eight in the sophomore and junior year, four in the fall term of the senior year); the average of grades on the thirty-five thousand words devoted to his field and the ten thousand to distribution; and his showing on the general examination...