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What is the secret of Feng's progress? Wrote a Chinese newspaper recently: "During the period of 1916 to 1925, he turned his spear backward seven times, at the rate of about once a year." That was a pretty good explanation, except for two points: 1) it dealt with only a small segment of a long and tortuous career, and 2) some might not understand that American for "turned his spear" is "double-crossed...
Looking to the future with an eye more towards something new, Mr. Conant repeats his proposal for a Graduate House, asks a ten million dollar fund to support General Education, and points out that the pressing financial needs of the graduate schools must soon be relieved. Looking backward, Mr. Conant points with pride to the University's fine teaching record in the Humanities; to the Society of Fellows; the new, improved library system; and the magnificent but generally ignored art collections in the Fogg Museum...
...point was that the other nations already had pictures showing the XS-1's straight-wing design; the Air Force had unwarily released them twelve months ago. Much U.S. supersonic research-and presumably that of other nations-had been centered on a swept-back design (i.e., wings slanted backward from the fuselage). The effect of publication was to tell all other nations and potential enemies: forget the swept-back design; as of now, at least, the straight wing...
Realistically, CRS is two states, Slovakia and the Czech combination of Bohomia and Moravia. I don't know much about Slovakia-haven't been there-except that it in a rather rural, backward area, dominated strongly by the Church. During the war, the Germans, trying to divide the republic during the occupation, feted the Slovaks with all kinds of food and materials, and people being naturally conservative, they look back to the German domination with some gastronomic nostalgia. Now they're picking up former collaborators every week in Slovakia. So when you talk about politics, you have to divide...
...Havana, the 63-nation conference on freer world trade dug deeper into one of its major dilemmas: every economically backward nation in the world has hopes of industrializing itself; none wants to be merely a source of cheap bananas, coffee or jute. Last week some of them were clinging to the right to use every trick in the book of economic nationalism, if necessary, to make their dreams come true...