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...bureaucratic mind, the Information Bulletin of the U.S. Military Government in Germany (OMGUS) solemnly totted up the abbreviations in common usage among occupation forces in Germany. From AACS (Airways and Air Communication Service) to ZVL (German central movements directorate), the compendium plodded through 581 separate items. Samples: BE (British Element), CROWCASS (Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects), GMZFO (Military Government of the French Zone of Occupation), PUP (Public Utilities Panel), WAGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Scouts...
...When a great ideal has ceased to illuminate the human understanding and has therefore lost its power, man has no choice but to search afresh for some element in the processes of the real world with which he can identify himself...
...political element in America can start to match the election-year discomfiture of Americans for Democratic Action. At its showy first formal national convention last weekend in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel ADA unanimously agreed that it was rebellious toward the Republicans, wrathful to the candidacy of Henry A. Wallace, and coolly critical of Truman's record. Both members and leaders called themselves "the third force" in civilization, rejecting the status quo of the Right and the worldwide totalitarian program of the Communist Left. Every-where it is the third force which finds itself today between the devil...
...conference. His object: to reform the House of Lords the Tory way. A conference would probably result in a compromise: cutting the present membership by more than half, allowing hereditary peers to elect parliamentary representatives from their own ranks (as Scottish peers do), balancing the reduced hereditary element by creating more Laborite peers...
...problems are varied and vexing. There is the human element: the smiling lady, who, for some mysterious, feminine reason, kept plugging Lipton's Tea as she brewed a pot of her sponsor's Tender Leaf. There are mechanical embarrassments, too: the Gillette razor that got stuck in the middle of a display of its , simple operation...