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...small, densely populated country such as Belgium can maintain a decent standard of living without a self-sustaining agriculture, because it has a high-geared industrial plant. But Puerto Rico is too poor in minerals and natural resources ever to support heavy manufacturing. It can and must develop light and medium industry. The alternative would be a future in which only an ever-increasing dole from the U.S. could prevent starvation. That is why Muñoz Marin, applying the self-help principles of the Marshall Plan, has enlisted Puerto Rico in the uphill struggle...
...thing in its power to encourage campaigning. The most immediately attractive notion is for the Council to provide free mimeographing service to all candidates who have something to say and yet don't want to spend the money. This is the least the Council could do to foster a decent volume of campaigning and possibly raise voting above the "I like Joe" level...
This was the third time that the freshman failed to show normal batting power against decent pitching from the opposition. In the first game of the season, MIT gave the '52 squad only six hits and two runs in a 2 to 2 ten-inning tie. Last Saturday Brown allowed the freshmen three runs on four hits...
...Back Streets of Paris" is a good example of how the French, unhampered by any gangster-cow-boy heritage, can make a decent blood 'n' thunder movie. The characters somehow standout from the screen as real people; you may disapprove of the life they lead, but still it's a perfectly credible life. Not that the film lacks any violence; on the contrary, there's a lot. But you quite literally always know what the shooting's about. "Back Streets of Paris" treats the activities of the French underworld in a frank and unassuming way; some scenes are so natural...
Hitting, however, has been sporadic. Although the Yardlings have outscored their visitors, 34 to 10, they didn't do too well against decent pitching. Dixon of MIT limited them to two runs on six hits two weeks ago, and North of Brown yielded three runs on only four hits last Saturday...