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...Fulbright resolution makes no hasty commitments which the nation might later regret. Yet it is a crystal-clear statement of American intentions to help make a good peace. As a foreign policy credo, it is probably as specific as could be made when the structure of the postwar world is so uncertain...
...Nelson's lesson was crystal clear: the U.S. civilian's personal war boom is just about over for the duration...
Fastest growing business in sleepy, elm-shaded Flemington, N.J. (pop. 2,700) is that of holding annual stockholders' meetings. Last week business was brisk. In one day, stockholders of the New York Air Brake Co., American Crystal Sugar Co. and McHutchinson & Co. (garden bulbs) plumped down in chairs in the law office of sedate, greying George Knowles Large, droned through the meetings, caught the first train back to New York, virtuously felt the 50-mile trip well worth the thousands of dollars in taxes they had thus saved their companies...
Apparently that was the wrong thing to say because it brought him out of his trance. "That's all," he said. "The crystal ball has clouded over. Two dollars, please...
...left, swearing never to trust a crystal ball again. They quit on you at the crucial moment. Television will be much better. But I'm going down to the Walnut Cafe tonight to see if I can find that Blonde. No sense in waiting till 1948. Besides I might get along better with her now, while I still have a full head of hair...