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With crushing inevitability, the advance of technology brings nations together and narrows the differences between the experiences of their people. The destruction of modern warfare tends to reduce the balance of advantage between victor and vanquished. The spectacular industrial progress of Japan and Germany after World War II was actually facilitated by the wholesale destruction of their industrial plant...
...Dust (Victor Fleming...
...commercial and financial hub of the Middle East. During the fighting, a 30-block patchwork of streets in the center was reduced to rubble; 6,000 shops and offices there were destroyed. Abandoning the central area, many Christian and Moslem businessmen are reopening in their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal: to bulldoze the entire 30-block area into the Mediterranean as landfill for a new skyscraper commercial...
...eight marshals, together with one representative from each of the 13 Houses, will serve on the Senior Class Committee. The committee will oversee approximately $19,000 to be spent on Commencement week activities, Victor A. Koivumaki III '68, Associated Harvard Alumni Associate for Classes and Reunions said yesterday...
Near dawn Monday, the doctors decided to call in outside help. One of them summoned Dr. [Victor Manuel] Montemayor [house doctor for a number of Acapulco resort hotels]. He arrived at the Hughes penthouse at 6 a.m. He spent two hours examining the emaciated billionaire and later said he was "aghast" at his condition. He was shown the blood analysis disclosing the failure of Hughes' kidneys, and his own examination showed that Hughes was drastically dehydrated, with a pulse so weak that the Mexican doctor could get no reading in several attempts to take his blood pressure...