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...long ago as 1946, the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Braniff routes down the west coast of South America to Lima and across to Rio de Janeiro. He even had a route allotted him into Argentina, but he did not have the permit from Argentina that he needed. Not till Braniff got the State Department, which was considering economic assistance to Argentina, to do some diplomatic stiff-arming for him did President Perón decide to play ball. The new flights will stretch to 10,583 miles the routes over which Braniff operates a fleet of 33 planes...
...summoned to visit an 18-year-old vagrant who was dying of tetanus. Much to his surprise he heard himself telling the boy: "You have just as good a chance with God as I have. You will be with Him soon, and I'll stay with you till you get there." Explains Harkness: "Gone was my previous thinking about the awful justice of God which demanded confession of sin and acceptance of the atonement of Christ on the cross. I only knew that the love of God is broader than the measure of man's mind." He gradually...
...sense waiting till the cops grab...
Like Ahab tracking Moby Dick, tireless Ben spent the summer and fall following his grizzly over New Mexico and Colorado. Faithfully he sent back his dispatches to the hunting party: "We will get him sooner or later-just as it suits you." Ben kept on the trail till the grizzly hibernated, though once he complained, "My gun froze on the route. I didn't have a mouthful of meat for ten days...
...page A.V.C. report in front of it which describes in detail the desperate need for such housing. From statements of 1278 of the 2375 married students now at Harvard: 1) 87 percent are veterans, 2) half have had from one to four children, 3) 400 who will not graduate till 1951 (and many not till 1952 or 1953), have tried to get, and still want housing of the type the University is tearing down, 4) 725 pay rents of $50-$125 a month (the Government units are $24 to $35 for three to four rooms), and 5) 300 spend over...