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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Patel worked in harness with apparent smoothness until last September. Then their differences over the proper policy toward Pakistan and India's Moslem minority-Patel favored a tough line-led to an open struggle for control of the Congress Party. Patel won the first round, but in the end mutual dependence prompted Patel and Nehru to patch up their quarrels...
...Whatever you take out of a woman in Nursing life before 23 or 24 you more than take out of her at the other end . . . We even prefer not admitting gentlewomen earlier than 26 or 27 for two reasons: one that gentlewomen are younger in knowingness than those who have had to rough it; the other that posts of superintendents will be theirs if they persevere . . . and 24 is too young to superintend...
...Make an Opera (music by Benjamin Britten; book & lyrics by Eric Crozier; produced by Peter Lawrence and the Show-of-the-Month Club), which closed at week's end, was half harrowingly cute, half harmlessly dull. At the start, some children and their elders decide to produce an opera, using the audience for chorus. While the cast rehearses in "the school auditorium," Musical Director Norman Del Mar flirtatiously coaches the onlookers through various songs-one of which turns the audience into owls, chaffinches and turtledoves. After that, the opera itself-a period tale about a chimney sweep-is performed...
Profits & Potential. In going after the auto industry, the Government could hardly have given a better example of how not to control prices. The price stabilizers had completely forgotten the lesson of World War II that prices of an end product cannot be effectively controlled unless prices of all the raw materials going into it are also held down. To be successful in his attempt to control auto prices, Valentine would have had to control prices and wages all down the line-in fact, put the lid on a major segment of the entire U.S. economy. The auto industry consumes...
...end, Zorn dropped a sackful of her tears in the Duke's lap, and sailed off with the princess for "the distant shining shores of Ever After." The Duke "showed his lower teeth" and muttered disconsolately: "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." A little while later there was a smell of old unopened rooms; then there was a sound of rabbits screaming; then there was a gleep; and then there wasn't any Duke in Coffin Castle...