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...message has a variety of implications up and down the forbidding, 4,000-mile chain of Andes. In some countries the call for reform and development comes through loud and clear. In others, the attitudes of centuries are hard to change. Everywhere, it will be nip and tuck to meet the suddenly rising expectations. As one hacienda owner says: "We have held our Indians in bondage and misery since the Conquest. Now our day is passing, their day is dawning. The transition could be a nightmare...
...sabre event proved decisive in the Princeton match. The Tigers managed to win, 5-4, but all of the five Harvard losses came by 5-4 scores. Crimson captain Jon Kolb, after dropping a nip-and-tuck opening match, bounced back to win his next two. Against Rutgers, the sabre fencers...
Palace Politics. While Lilienthal's fight with the power companies won the headlines, he had just as much trouble protecting his flanks against marauding New Dealers. Harold Ickes wanted to tuck TVA into the Interior Department. Other New Dealers favored in creasing centralization in Washington, but Lilienthal believed in decentralization, and worked incessantly to keep TVA free of politics or pressure groups...
...salami in a wall safe, sets rattraps to maim any hand that gropes under the sofa for the hidden vodka, and religiously snaps off lights. Lou breaks into the salami safe and religiously snaps on lights. After this epic depiction of character, Playwright Slade can do nothing but tuck the twosome...
Blanket Solution. For all that, no product has so far provoked as many uneasy stirrings in the Common Market as the ordinary blanket. When they sleep, the French like to tuck in their blankets, and they thus require a wider blanket than the citizens of other nations. The Germans, on the other hand, sleep with covers untucked, and the much larger blankets liked by the French irritate them by dragging on the floor. The blanket business is by no means Europe's biggest, but it clearly will have to come up with a physiological solution agreeable to all-perhaps...