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...intended for large-scale building projects where changes in the plan or the use of the structures may be likely or desirable. They call their development "Ratio Structures" and have completed a full scale sample in The Bronx. Built on small concrete piers, it is unique in having its framework, like a snail's, on the outside. The structure is composed of two practically independent parts: 1) an arch-shaped roof made of insulated panels and supported by posts; 2) rooms, formed of demountable inner & outer panels* which can be shuffled around at will under the roof. Thus...
...framework of fact is necessary to more advanced study, but a good memory for names, dates, and places should not be considered the criterion of historical acumen. The Times test is weak in its exclusive attention to memory, and the conclusion drawn in its editorial, "that our high schools need better teaching in the subject," though it is probably accurate, is not supported by the mass of irrelevancies cited in its report...
Within this framework, says Author Allen, will be action "deep in implication." Subthemes will concern the effects of revenge as a racial policy, "the sentimental tradition that we are a merciful and kindly people," the acts of savagery that may arise out of "infantile compulsions." But basic to all will be the idea that the first Americans were neither revolutionaries nor reorganizers. They were "disinherited," and "for the first time in memorized history man was free to act entirely on his own responsibility...
...preceding generations have succeeded, nationality, in regulating and inspiring the continuous struggle for greater freedom and justice, with its concomitant conflicts and tensions, by a framework of peace under law, so can this generation create a similar framework internationally by collective responsibility for, and enforcement of peace by the United Nation, which include representatives of all climates. All races, China and Brazil, France Norway, Iraq and Ethiopia...
...preceding generations have succeeded, nationally, in regulating and inspiring the continuous struggle for greater freedom and justice, with its concomitant conflicts and tensions, by a framework of peace under law, so can this generation create a similar framework internationally by collective responsibility for, and enforcement of, peace by the United Nations, which include representatives of all climates and all races, China and Brazil, France and Norway, Iraq and Ethiopia...