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Future negotiators might be able to answer some of the problems raised by the Ford plan. But the basic pattern had been set. Trying to avoid a fourth round of wage rises, U.S. industry had no alternative but to agree to the large, new experiment in one way or another and hope for the best...
Back in New Delhi at week's end, Nehru said that the U.S.S.R.'s atomic discovery may help prevent war. "The more terrible the dangers of war," Nehru explained, "the more the people should see the folly of it and avoid it. But people do not always behave logically, of course...
...infinitely better," concluded Tokyo Raider Jimmy Doolittle, "to avoid a war than...
Page at a Time. The news of successive accidents traveled fast this summer (though some Alpine hotelkeepers arranged to have the bodies carried down to the villages after dark to avoid talk). But the news did not seem to discourage the growing number of enthusiasts. The Alpine Club of France has almost 40,000 members, those of Italy and Switzerland 100,000 each, with booming sales of books and magazines devoted solely to how to scale a mountain...
...rendering of Don Quixote, Putnam says: "I have striven to avoid . . . an antiquated style and vocabulary and . . . any modernism that would . . . savor of flippancy." He is diffident about the result ("though I think I do these translations better as I grow older"), but need not be: it is one of the triumphs of the translator's trade...