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...signed agreements for about $450 million in nonmilitary aid -more than Russia has granted any other non-satellite nation. But in contrast with their usual practice, the Russians make little attempt to disguise the political strings attached to their offers to Yugoslavia, have pointedly frozen credits already agreed upon when displeased by Tito's diplomatic posture. (One consequence of this is that, despite the fact that the Russians first agreed to supply credits for it in August 1956, construction of a $175 million aluminum plant in Montenegro has now been postponed to 1960 at the earliest.) The Yugoslavs...
Bender claimed that prohibiting the use of photographs is meaningless, since all applicants are interviewed. He added that "the issue is whether the State is going to infringe upon the proper freedom of institutions to manage their own affairs within...
...which he has had considerable practice; but, not for any argument's sake, am I willing to grant that Mr. Jencks knows everything. His article is neither review nor criticism but self-exhibition,--a long-winded parade of half-baked psychiatry and sociology. He piles up platitude upon platitude like Pelion upon Ossa--for instance, "all intellectual activity is a reaction to some stimulus" (high school learning); there are the three things upon which--as he tells us--Freud's success is based (why three rather than thirty?) and so on. Where are the CRIMSON'S standards when...
...M.D.C. has already begun plans for widening the road between Memorial Drive and Fresh Pond Parkway. Chief Engineer Benjamin W. Fink said last night that these plans will have no effect upon the fate of the Hell's Half Acre area...
Ziusudra's Ark. For the bare bones of her account, Author Hill uses the 377 verses of the Bible (Genesis 11:27-25:11). To flesh them out she draws upon The Book of Jubilees, a Hebrew document, probably of the 3rd or 4th century B.C., that purports to be a series of messages about the history of mankind given to Moses by an angel. By far the most interesting elements in the book are provided by the latest diggings in Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...