Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...present, President Truman had decided to invoke only part of his powers. The mobilization that he decreed would fall far short of total mobilization, with its millions in uniform and 24-hour-a-day factories, its censorship and brownouts, its ration books and black markets. Partly, this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected...
...skies had not cleared completely. Britain's present gold and dollar surplus could be wiped out by British rearmament costs or by a fall in exports. The London Economist gravely noted last week: "The ability of the postwar British economy to survive in competitive conditions remains untested." For this reason, Hugh Gaitskell had carefully stressed that Marshall Plan aid was suspended, not ended. Should it again be required before the end of 1952, it would be forthcoming...
Ever since 1937, when St. John's College at Annapolis made education history by basing its curriculum on the Great Books, it has been getting occasional inquiries from women who wanted to enroll. Last week, after years of saying no, St. John's changed its policy. Next fall, announced the Board of Visitors and Governors, the college hopes to have 50 freshmen coeds -the first in St. John's 254-year history...
...backbone of any really sophisticated revue is the skits and those in Bless You All again & again fall flat. For one thing, their targets are usually as obvious as their aim is erratic. Perhaps the liveliest number is the most elaborate: a take-off of a 1960 presidential campaign conducted entirely by television. The show overworks Comic Jules Munshin, who is pleasant to have around now & then, and overtaxes Comedienne Mary McCarty, who can perform-but not miracles...
...Disenchanted, by Budd Schulberg. The last chapters in the decline & fall of a novelist who had been the Jazz Age's darling; a novel largely modeled on the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (TIME...