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...with gallant old (70) anti-Nazi Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the 76-year-old Chancellor hopes to erase some of the bitterness left by the Nazi occupation and to convince Greece that West Germany can be a good partner. In Turkey, where Germans are popular, he expects to cement a "long-term partnership" that will help German salesmen-and eventually German diplomats-in the Moslem world...
...Undergraduate Athletic Council last night formally approved the revised constitution of the Managers' Council--a group of junior and senior sports managers revived this winter to cement ties between players, the Athletic Council, and the Harvard Athletic Association...
...Cement would be needed in large amounts, and it would be advantageous not to have to bring it from the earth. If the moon has rocks containing the equivalent of lime and clay, cement might conceivably be made from them. There is a chance. Sowerby thinks, that the fierce heat of the unshielded sunlight may have disintegrated lunar rocks into ready-powdered oxides. This should simplify concrete-making in one small detail...
Some of the conquerors themselves are alarmed at the trend. U.S. businessmen, who have found themselves undersold in foreign markets by 40% or more on such items as X-ray equipment and cement-making machinery, are getting out their storm warnings. Some British firms are so worried that they are already bluntly reminding their customers that the Germans who today are winning export business away from the British are the" same ones who yesterday made the V-25 that bombed London. Headlined Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: THEY'LL BEAT YOU YET, THESE GERMANS...
...Western College for Women, understandably got little help from the undertakers. But parishioners told them a great deal-about undertakers failing to display their more modest caskets, about cemetery associations lobbying in state legislatures for laws to make cemetery burial even of ashes compulsory, about high-pressure salesmanship of cement vaults and airconditioned caskets as "the humane thing...