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...begun and that their world might be sacrificed to it, and tried to understand what might have to be done. Russia-apparently in all U.S. minds-was the real villain, the real and terrible foe. Said Detroit Salesman Zacharias Cosmas: "Hit the main Bolsheviks. The tail won't bite if you hit the head." Said New Orleans Policeman Ernest F. Curtis: "We should declare war on Russia officially and then drop all the A-bombs we can on her." But most people didn't talk that...
...National Production Authority, which for some time has been nibbling at the civilian use of various scarce materials, last week took the biggest bite yet. It ordered a 15% cut in non-defense copper for the first two months of 1951, and a 20% cut for March. Automen said the cut would mean a 10% slash in auto production in next year's first quarter because there was no practical substitute for copper in auto radiators...
Like its predecessor, Three Husbands tells its story in episodic flashbacks, straightens out its tangled problems with a surprise twist-which comes now as not much of a surprise. The movie suffers not only from familiarity but from lack of the characterization, humorous bite and thoughtful undertones that lifted the earlier film out of the ruck...
...staff he abandoned plans to appear personally before a joint session. But he sent word by his leaders that he wanted: statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; $14 billion more for defense, for a total this year of $43 billion; a $4 billion tax bill with a 75% bite on excess profits (see BUSINESS); $250 million more for the H-bomb; extension of rent control, which expires on Dec. 31, unless Congress acts; and up to $75 million to feed Tito (see above). It was a program to keep even a regular session at work for months...
...infantryman, was relieved as commander of the Tonkin area and replaced by General Pierre Georges Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, 63, who has an intimate knowledge of Indo-China and a reputation for energy and aggressiveness. Say his colleagues: "Il a beaucoup de mordant" (He has plenty of bite...