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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplying the Communists with credit to buy capital goods, the West would be putting another nail in the coffin of freedom. It would 1) permit a Communist industrial speedup that would enable them to beat (with their usual subsidies) Western bloc quotes in export markets hitherto untouched by them; 2) free more money for the U.S.S.R. to lend at less-than-cost interest rates to uncommitted neutrals, thereby winning favor and using them up economically. Yes, trade with the Communists, but restrict the goods to food and consumer items...
...Purr Usual? In Lansing, Mich., the State Journal ran a classified ad: "Beagle Pup Lost. Black and brown, 6 mos. old male, red collar, answers to 'kitty, kitty...
...setting" for such tutorial rests in the Houses, which must provide "suitable substitutes for the strengthened tutorial offered to Honors men." Citing the suggestion for such instruction in last year's report of the Committee on Educational Policy, he added, "it is not clear whether tutorial instruction of the usual kind, or some kind of modified group tutorial, or even merely an advisory relationship was contemplated." Leighton left the choice up to the tutors and Masters...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, February first, from four to six o'clock, and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
Author Ben Hecht, newly mellowed into the meek Wallace of TV interviewing, surrendered to impulse last week. In place of chatting with his usual guest, Hecht wrote a way-gone whimsy. The Three Echoes on a Cloud-a bull session on world problems between Helen of Troy, Empress Josephine and Joe Stalin, perched on adjacent clouds in limbo. Sample thought: "We'll divide this into East Cloudia and West Cloudia." Hecht himself played Stalin in full Red uniform with all the passion of a snowman in Siberia. Next week: Hecht as Casanova...