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There was no formal opening or dedication ceremony for the million dollar addition to Harvard's engineering facilities. Instead, workmen have been moving scientific apparatus into the empty building since last June, and scientists began their work as painters and electricians left...
...modern world politics must include not only the Golden Rule itself ("do unto others...") but an attempt to see ourselves as others see us and to put ourselves imaginatively in the position of others. There is, perhaps, a lesson for Mr. Dulles in the case of the French priests-workmen who, after a year or two of intimate missionary work among the industrial workers of Paris, now find themselves identified with them politically to a degree that seems dangerous to the Vatican...
...most famed boats in the U.S. Navy's submarine service. Last week, at Groton, Conn., Navy Secretary Robert Anderson presided at the keel-laying† of a new Seawolf, the second U.S. atomic-powered submarine. The first, the Nautilus, will be launched in January, and workmen were busy hammering and welding on its hull, while guests gathered on the adjoining ways for the Seawolf's ceremony...
...export of goods is to increase [foreign manufacturers'] opportunity to have their goods admitted into the U.S. I think every shipload of consumers' goods that comes to these shores from Germany, Japan, India, Italy or elsewhere is going to lay idle a corresponding number of American workmen and affect American business in the same ratio...
...squad of British workmen marched round the cathedral city of Salisbury (pop. 33,000) one day last week, carefully painting broad white circles around the metal telephone posts. The men had not gone mad, as some Sarumites suspected; they were simply trying to protect Her Britannic Majesty's property from ill-mannered dogs. After much experiment, Post Office researchers had reached a solemn conclusion: that not even dire necessity will drive a normal dog to cross a bright white line. Instead, dogs try to sneak around the end of the line, and, in the case of a circle, never...