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...responsible for Plan E, a system of administering civic duties through an appointed city manager, a few shrewd politicians seek to divert attention from both their own incompetence and the achievements of Plan E. Cries of "political domination by a bunch of Tory Rowers" cannot entirely cloud the record. Over a six year period the proponents of Plan E have accomplished a consolidation of four city departments with resultant economies, four playgrounds have been rebuilt and eight more are under construction, the public libraries received 40,000 new books as the result of a survey, and forty miles of pitted...
Trouble. But all was not well. Vicky did not pull out of her glide and fly level, as she was intended to do. She wobbled and rolled, then steadied, still gliding, and popped into a cloud at 10,000 ft. That was the last seen of Vicky except for a mass of information radioed to the ground by instruments crowding her insides. Apparently her gyro-pilot went haywire, and could not hold her in level flight...
...Cloud. George Marshall dealt with Korea with the same abruptness. "For about two years the U.S. Government has been trying to reach agreement with the Soviet Government ... in bringing about the independence of Korea. . . . The independence of Korea is no further advanced." He invited the 55 nations of the Assembly to take up that problem, now blocked by a U.S.-Soviet stalemate...
...consequences of failure to attain effective international control, we shall continue our efforts." But the Commission, he said, "may soon be faced with the conclusion that it is unable to complete the task," and he left the implications of that statement floating over the audience like a mushroom-shaped cloud...
Last week a "high Finnish source" let it out that Moscow wanted a new trade agreement, would like to start negotiations in October. It was a cloud on the horizon, and no one could say-yet-whether it was bigger or smaller than a man's hand. The Finns hoped that Moscow was not disturbed by the fact that,-on one recent day, there were 17 U.S. ships in Helsinki harbor...