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...sincere congratulations for your article on Miss Audrey Hepburn [TIME, Sept. 7]. Such a stimulating antidote to all the recent publicity, relating to a sad analysis of the deterioration of values among a fraction of our womanhood...
...Tear for Taxes. Lewis saved his coldest fury for his warmest subject, coal. "The coal industry," said he, "should be exporting 50 million tons of coal this year instead of a fraction of that amount. It would make the difference between reasonable employment and subnormal employment . . . We give Italy and France and Yugoslavia and the Low Countries money. They take that money and buy Czechoslovakian coal . . . Now there is no reason why [Japan] shouldn't get [coal] from the U.S. except that we don't have the aptitude to furnish the coal, so we give her money...
This week, with only a fraction of the 23,000 non-repatriates still to arrive, the tumult in Indian Village began to subside. Sandhurst-trained General Thorat and his troops-the pick of India's professional army-showed impressive efficiency and tact in handling the physical transfer of the prisoners. There was considerable doubt, however, that the Indians would prove equally competent to handle the skulduggery sure to take place when the Communists get their chance to "explain" to each prisoner why he should change his mind and accept repatriation. And they were not prepared for a possible mass...
Treasury Secretary Humphrey took the report without flinching. Said he, noting that the increase is only a fraction of a point over the mark of twelve months ago: "That is a most eloquent demonstration of a stabilized economy...
...building a 25-ton magnet for a new eyepiece and plans a still bigger one. He and his assistants are experimenting with the university's new accelerator that should soon be splitting electrons at the highest speed ever reached: 186,000 miles a second, only a fraction slower than the speed of light. With his new microscope, which will put the atomic nucleus in even sharper focus, Hofstadter may well probe to the innermost limits of matter...