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...Machines. Just before he left Mexico City last week, Ambassador Morrow delivered a farewell address in which he said: "It is too often assumed that scientific inventions prevent misunderstanding. Machines, however, do not understand each other. Man may make a perfect machine but it will still depend upon man himself whether the machine shall be an instrument of understanding or misunderstanding...
...Cambridge attitude was never better expressed than in William J. Bingham's remarks to the freshman class a night or two ago. 'During the year," the director of athletics said, "we shall engage in no less than 375 intercollegiate games. The prestige of the college does not depend on any of these contests...No one will accuse you of having 'poor spirit' if you prefer to spend Saturday afternoon at the library rather than to attend a football game. No coach will urge you to play any game for the glory of dear old Harvard...
...Government of India has arrested and imprisoned Gandhi for criminal breeches of law. They now permit him to hold cabinet councils with his fellow conspirators in jail, while the great governing organism, upon whose calm strength the lives and livelihood of uncounted millions depend, wait cap in hand outside the cell door, hoping to wheedle a few kind words out of their prisoner...
...discriminates against the deaf, that employers have found that accidents are rare among deaf workers because they are exceptionally careful. A recent Pennsylvania check-up of motorists revealed deaf drivers are best. Only Ohio, North Carolina and Minnesota have public employment bureaus for the deaf. Elsewhere the afflicted must depend on their own initiative...
...piece of this kind comes when the hero, trying to explain to his girl that he is not really a famed mining engineer traveling incognito but just a country boy in his first golf trousers, is always interrupted and has to keep his secret. Jack Oakie does not depend on stock laughs. He makes them bearable but is really funny only when he improvises. The picture, most of which takes place on a steamer going to Macedonia, lacks the continuous suggestion of laughter that first-rate comedy possesses, but it makes up for dull stretches by moments of hilarity. Typical...