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This statistical equilibrium is symbolic of the whole tone of the house. It has very little special character of its own, yet it strives to maintain President Lowell's original ideal of a House as "the college in microcosm." It does not try to mold its members into either gentlemen or scholars, but lets its members mold it and themselves...
...EQUILIBRIUM is a melodramatic vignette about a French aerialist (Kirk Douglas) and his partner (Pier Angeli). Although it has some fine, dizzy trapeze shots, its high-flying theme is mostly grounded in earthbound dramatics...
...offhandedly cancel its formal agreements. In the case of Nationalist China-which this week abrogated its treaty with Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL)-Russia was openly aiding and abetting a rival Chinese government, i.e., the Chinese Communists in Peking. But the U.S. is still committed to a kind of tense diplomatic equilibrium with Russia. Moreover, the Yalta and Potsdam agreements were so sweeping in import that repudiation might immediately put the U.S. face to face with the need for some kind of action to right the wrongs (e.g., to restore South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands to Japan...
...doing the next First Lady an unkindness. She is not strong; she suf fers from a heart murmur which makes her hesitate before stairs, and in the past fell prey, for some time, to a disturbance of the inner ear which had a minor but annoying effect on her equilibrium. Last summer she made it clear to her friends that she would have been delighted, if fate allowed, to spend the coming years at the 189-acre farm near Gettysburg, Pa. which she and Ike bought...
...Winston Churchill's toast at a dinner given in his honor by the Anglo-American Pilgrim Society, NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway last week said that the massive Red army could still pluck Europe like an overripe plum. The Cold Peace boys assume that because an equilibrium between East & West is planned, it is already here. The fact is, said Ridgway, that NATO's strength in Europe is woefully below "minimum military requirements." Everybody seemed to assume that of course a SHAPE general had to scold like that...