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...measurements doubtless stretched the six months' accomplishments about as far as they would go. But they indicated that Dwight Eisenhower has learned how to maintain his broad objectives amid the pressures of everyday specifics, and is beginning to feel more at home in the business of government...
...their talks, the Presidents picked the dedication of Falcon Dam, 75 miles down the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. A joint U.S.-Mexican project, Falcon is being built to ease the lower Rio Grande valley's crying water shortage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ike and Don Adolfo will doubtless stress that it is a foursquare piece of international cooperation: the nations pay for it in proportion to the benefits in power and irrigation that it will give each (58.6% for the U.S., 41.4% for Mexico). The Presidents can also marvel at the dam's size...
...Forum explained its action in a letter to Fast, regretting "that after all the trouble we have put you to, we are compelled to tell you that we cannot present the original forum program as we had planned. As you doubtless understand from the newspapers, putting on such a program at this time would not only embarrass, but hurt, several people connected with the University...
...Winner was published in the U.S. last summer (TIME, July 31), reviewers set up a cheer over the strange new star caught in their literary telescopes. Acclaimed in his own land and lifetime (1839-1908) as Brazil's greatest man of letters, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis would doubtless have relished the irony of this posthumous foreign recognition for a novel whose hero is a garrulous ghost, bent on describing his own small genius for failure while alive. Dom Casmurro is a more poignant and more muted Epitaph of a Small Winner, but anyone with a slight case...
...Forum explained its action in a letter to Fast, regretting "that after all the trouble we have put you to, we are compelled to tell you that we cannot present the original forum program as we had planned. As you doubtless understand from the newspapers, putting on such a program at this time would not only embarrass, but hurt, several people connected with the University...