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...French economy in 1953 is stuck between feudalism and anarchy. Potentially. France is the richest farm country in Europe, yet she imports $200 million more food than she exports. Her farms are tinier and less economical than they were in 1930. French industry seems to operate on an inverted system of Malthusianism, holding down production to keep pace with the population. When demand falls off. firms cut their output, instead of reducing prices to stimulate the market...
Meet the Press. From the, moment she stepped down the ramp from a Royal Canadian Air Force DC-4M at Washington's National Airport, it became apparent that newspaper pictures had never done justice to Elizabeth's delicate coloring or warm smile. She was both tinier and prettier than most who saw her had guessed. But it was quickly apparent, too, that she was a hardworking, quietly tense-and extremely enduring-young woman, engaged in a nervous and difficult task...
Small as these groups are, however, the controlling minority within them is far tinier. In all, not more than a dozen men are in control of the entire system. Yet the records prove that their abilities are far greater than the average student politico elsewhere, enabling them to generate the noise and interest that has made Harvard a political hotbed today
That same height advantage, however, was not always in evidence, for the Varsity quintet seemed to have uncommon difficulty in recovering rebounds from its own backboard against the tinier Techmen. On defense, John Gantt turned in a good performance underneath the basket...
...problem in radar is to generate enough power to get a detectable echo from a distant point. Of the total energy sent out in a radar beam scanning the skies, only a tiny fraction hits the target (e.g., a plane), and a much tinier echo gets back to the receiver. Engineers estimate that if the outgoing energy were represented by the sands of a beach, the returning echo would be just one grain of sand...