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...plans now on the drawing board are good, but being premised on the presence of top-notch teaching talent, they should be scaled down some-what to include men of admittedly stop-gap timber. At all events, the Russian area program should get under way even while the University searches for the scarce teachers. Otherwise, for lack of material in Cambridge, the Harvard graduate must continue to turn to other institutions...
...over meat, but the President still drew scorn from every quarter. Republican politicians pointed to the confusion in the White House. Fiorello LaGuardia, speechmaking in Oklahoma City, called the President the "Roy Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman turned columnist, suggested W. C. Fields as presidential timber: "If we're going to have a comedian in the White House, let's have a good one." In Wash ington's Smithsonian Institution, a mysterious scratch disfigured the face of the Chief Executive's portrait...
Food for the Devout. It was the people's parade. At one point the mayor, by tradition, set his shoulder to the timber, helped carry the image. Just behind the penitents ranged vendederos, hawking soft drinks and Lima's best cakes...
...miles are occupied by only 72,524 people, 32,458 of them tuberculosis-ridden natives. It is rich, but its riches do it little good; its basic industries, salmon fishing and canning and gold mining, are owned in absentia. It has more coal than Pennsylvania, endless miles of virgin timber, many waterpower sites, but they cannot be marketed...
Last week young voices echoed against Trogen's green hillsides, while strong young arms sawed timber and dug cellars for new homes in the village. Trogen's best efforts, Walter Corti knew, would never house more than a few hundred of Europe's helpless thousands. But the thin man was not discouraged. Said he: "The main thing is to get this village going as a model for other countries...