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...assigned to the belief, widespread in the '30's, that the new experiment in the land of the Czars would not work, or, alternatively, if it did work, that the people and government would be so vitiated that they could never again become a first class power. The utter fallacy of this belief seeped slowly into the world of academic planning, and it was not until December of 1944--six months before the Soviet Army marched into Berlin--that the idea of an area study that would include Russia was broached to the Committee on Education Policy of the Faculty...
...annual basis, was aligned with that of the Army and Navy so that no great difference existed. On the face of it, an Ordinary Seaman figuring up a pay-off of $1500 for a six months trip might cause a member of the Naval Armed Guard to utter some unholy things about his own $76 or $92 monthly draw. But members of the Armed Forces and the public at large rarely stop to compute the full income tax that merchant seamen must pay, vacation or furlough money that these seamen must supply for themselves, and family allotments that civilian seamen...
Probably at least one of the tunnels would be big enough to handle a full-sized super-rocket, testing 1) its reactions on its roaring rise through the atmosphere; 2) its flight through empty space, where utter cold makes many metals lose their strength; 3) its meteor plunge to earth, heated perhaps near incandescence by friction with denser...
Peering over his horn-rimmed spectacles at a packed-in New Lecture Hall audience last evening, Lord Lindsay of Birker, Master of Oxford's Balliol College and Labor Party peer, said Russia on the one hand and America and England on the other are not, as some think, in utter disagreement; for on one point, they meet on common ground: each thinks the other's conception of democracy is "preposterous nonsense...
...only for a sandwich, migrate across town to bet away the afternoon at the slightly tonier Hipico. Earlier in the present Chilean winter, when lack of rainfall slowed hydroelectric plants and forced the capital to go on daylight saving time, fans sat stoically through the 8 a.m. race in utter darkness (newspapers suggested that the ponies carry lanterns...