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Thanks to the GI Bill and a French demand for two-way intellectual travel, the number of American students spending their summers in the Old Country this year will be larger than ever before. The desirability of this arrangement, however, is deceiving, for despite the improved condition of France's economy and the marked strides the nation has made toward regaining her pre-war financial foundations, the country is still fairly shaky internally and a glut of recreation-seekers, travelling in the guise of students, may well put a stop to a great opportunity...
With the addition of patrol cars and two-way radios, the policeman's job is becoming more and more a profession, the role of the Police Station more and more pervasive. But despite the record Harvard enrollment, student brushes with the Law have remained at a pre-war minimum and as far as duty around the Yard is concerned, W. S. Gilbert was all wrong. The policeman's lot is getting better all the time...
Gunning's advice: "Write as you talk. Most bestsellers, and even the King James version of the Bible, are written so sixth-or seventh-graders can read them. Why should a Washington correspondent write 'bilateral concordance' when he means 'two-way pact?' Why should a police reporter say an accident victim suffered 'contusions and abrasions' when he really means 'cuts and bruises...
...show U.S. consumers that world trade is a two-way street; that others can't pay for our goods unless we buy from them...
Geneva In the Spring. Since trade is a two-way street, that policy could not be conclusive. The importance of what the U.S. laid on the line would be measured in the end by what the rest of the world was ready to accept. The rest of the world had its own problems and objectives. But it was the U.S. which would make the first offer, and last week the rest of the world watched with closest interest...