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...long range objective of the Medical Bureau to aid Spanish Democracy is just what the name implies, to aid the wounded on the loyalist side in Spain in a medical way. From the Medical Bureau's viewpoint, participation in the parade was perfectly consistent with that objective because of the high publicity value of the Harvard ambulance. It could be displayed to induce more people to contribute to send more ambulances to Spain. Even so the ambulance was shipped at the earliest possible date, indicating that it was used primarily for immediate relief, and only incidentally for publicity purposes...
Representing the Japanese and Chinese viewpoint respectively Takaiso Matsumoto 1G.B., and Robert Dunn Wu '87, 1G., debated informally on the present situation in China last night in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Student Union...
...From the viewpoint of the public, the annual Automobile Shows-opened by the Manhattan show (staged by the manufacturers) and followed immediately by 44 shows in other cities (staged by dealers)-are eagerly anticipated pageants where the nation's most progressive industry displays new and wonderful improvements in U. S. mankind's most basic luxury. Improvements in 1938 automobiles are. however, neither new nor wonderful. Cars look virtually the same as last year, save for a few refinements of streamlining. Only one newcomer, a midget car named Bantam, makes its debut. Mechanical advances are meagre...
...From the viewpoint of automobile makers & sellers, the Automobile Show is considered the best means of "kicking-off the industry to a good start." To the industry, this year's kick-off looks good because the slight changes in car appearance mean that few expensive changes in plant and tooling were necessary to launch the new models. The lack of newcomers and new gadgets means that dealers can continue in their accustomed sales routines. And prices, already raised some 5% in August, are generally being raised some 5% more with the show. Having ridden a rough road...
...Then, I imagined the quarter-inch insect expanding to my size, with everything around it enlarging in proportion. It was a curious sensation-like breathing in and out-this contracting and expanding viewpoint. The six-foot ladybug, I perceived, would live in a world where grassblades would be as wide as a highway and would tower hundreds of feet in the air. Crickets twenty-four feet long would crawl through the grassroot jungles. Moths, with wings stretching more than 100 feet from tip to tip, would soar through the air at dusk. Bushes would have the appearance of frowning cliffs...