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...campaign has given the co-chairman just the chance they needed to find an efficient yet flexible solution for the charities problem. The Committee has made the recipient charities as personal as possible and has coordinated all the separate drives throughout the University into a single campaign. "E Pluribus Unum" represents the organizational aim of the committeemen. Its monetary significance should induce students to respond generously...
Last week UNESCO began printing money in an international currency all its own-the Unum (value $5). Unums (for UNESCO Unit of Money) are not real money in the sense that they can buy either guns, butter or trips abroad. But each of the 130,000-Unums-worth of bills (in one, two-and ten-Unum denominations) printed in Paris last week, and backed by UNESCO's own dollar reserve, will be worth its face value in exchange for books, films and scientific equipment in any UNESCO country...
...Pluribus Unum. No technical innovator, Author Cozzens demonstrates his theme by the popular "Grand Hotel" method of assembling hordes of people, all with singular points of view, in one place-a huge World War II airbase. in Florida. Some of them are elderly, Regular Army officers to whom the mechanics of war are as vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel...
...knows that it can discount a good deal of the characteristically jeering American attitude toward the elected representatives of the American people. For the U.S. Congress knows-as the American people know-that, in spite of sectional differences, in spite of politics and politicians and party lines, E Pluribus Unum is more than a coin-worn phrase...
...some snapshots of Harvard? Well, BILL PAGE and ALBERT J. Marsh took some dandies the day of the graduation ceremonies and BILL says he got a swell action picture of me...yes, sound asleep while a Latin Speech was being delivered...all I know about that is "E PLURIBUS UNUM"...and 'I'm not sure whether it was he or Caesar that got killed in the second...