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There might have to be more restrictions, said the President. It depended, in part, on the U.S. itself. "If prices should rise unduly because of excessive buying or speculation," he said sternly, "I will not hesitate to recommend rationing and price controls." But, above all, what the U.S. had to do from now on would depend largely on what the Soviet Union did. "I shall not attempt to predict the course of events," said Harry Truman. "But I am sure that those who have it in their power to unleash or withhold acts of armed aggression must realize that...
...People have persistently crowded the newsstands to buy the journals which are against [their political interests] and left the liberal publications to a select, self-righteous audience. . . A newspaper which professes to be a spokesman of The People must display some real capacity for interesting them. . . It cannot depend for survival on. . . those who [already] agree with its editorial policy...
Georges Rouault feels "very tired" at 79. He lives in seclusion outside of Paris, painting his molten, haunting illustrations of the New Testament. Dark though they generally are, Rouault's religious works depend on color to convey his intense emotion. Far more self-critical than most moderns, Rouault two years ago burned 315 old, unfinished works he had come to dislike...
...great secrecy by the game's racketeer bankers. The numbers on which wager-loving Brazilians gamble represent 25 different animals. A sequence of four consecutive double numbers is assigned to each animal, ranging from the eagle (01, 02, 03, 04) to the cow (97, 98, 99, 00). Odds depend on whether a player stakes his bet just on the animal-any one of four possibilities-or on a combination of numbers...
...possible solution for this: provide an "anticipatory game." This would occur if either Yale or Harvard had a chance to tie another member of the league for a championship. It would be played with this member team before the traditional H-Y game, and its validity would depend on the outcome of the Yale contest. Other teams ending late could use the same system...