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...quick Congressional acceptance showed that there is substantial bipartisan agreement in Congress on the basic elements of postwar U.S. foreign policy. As a step toward formulating this policy, in terms to which a great majority of U.S. citizens can subscribe, it represents a long stride down the road opened by such earlier attempts as the Senate's Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution (TIME, March...
...present group comes from two colleges, Mt. Holyoke and Smith, where each trainee received from 6 to 8 weeks "basic training". They will live, as did the two classes before them, in Briggs Hall at Radcliffe, taking their classes at Longfellow Hall on the Radcliffe campus and at the Business School across the river...
Eight months ago, Goodman Quevedo went to work to stop youthful hoodlumism, started a kind of grown-up Boys Club for the zooters. He knew that they represented a basic American problem: the second generation. Their fathers and mothers were still Mexicans at heart. They themselves were Americans - resented and looked down on by other Americans. Jobless, misunderstood in their own homes and unwelcome outside them, they had fallen into the companionship of misery. They dressed alike, in the most exaggerated and outlandish costume they could afford: knee-length coats, peg-top trousers, yard-long watch chains, "ducktail" haircuts...
...nation's shoe clerks had a fierce week. There were stampedes, late closings, long queues of customers (mostly women, exhibiting a wholly unfeminine unconcern with style as compared to comfort and wear). The shoe stampede illustrated the basic psychology of rationees: need or no need, use Coupon No. 17 before it's too late. But many had held off in order to get the most possible wear out of No. 17. They probably won't use No. 18 until just before it expires...
...basic element in the creation of this poisonous atmosphere is an economic system that can expand no more...