Word: ent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom in television strikes ARCHITECTURAL FORUM as a very mixed blessing. Blinking nervously, the current FORUM takes a quick, appalled look at TV's pres, ent and foreseeable future. Sample findings...
...Harvard undergraduates, who should therefore have the sole and unrestricted use of it. "We are running a library for Harvard men," they say, "and see no reason why we should have to bear other people's problems, too." Every Radcliffe student using the library, they further point out, would ent into the supply of books and chairs and other facilities for Harvard...
Died. Major General Uzal Girard Ent, U.S.A. (ret.), 48, leader of the low-level mass bombing raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in 1943; after long illness; in Denver. Paralyzed from the waist down in a 1944 crash, he set an example for other paraplegics by ultimately learning to walk with braces...
...later Mao himself, smiling and assured, emerged to answer a correspond ent's questions. He said carefully: "I am confident of the outcome of the negotiations. . . . The Chinese Communist Party is prepared to make important concessions. . . . I believe that . . . an agreement, not temporary in character but one which will ensure long-term peaceful reconstruction, will emerge." Mao refused to contemplate deadlock and bloody civil war. He declared emphatically: "I do not believe that the negotiations could break down. Under whatever condition, the Chi nese Communist Party will persist in a policy of avoiding civil war. There may be difficulties...
With a bumper crop of novices in prospect (some from the armed services), Father Superior Whittemore is optimistic of his Order's future. Says he: "Our pres ent problem ... is to adjust the principles of monasticism to the 20th Century. We must dare, by God's help, to live dangerously...