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Some of this communication gap might have been created by the physical setting. Eliot's cavernous dining hall, filled though it was, is hardly suitable for Davis' art. No concert stage would be appropriate, for that matter. These songs, at least the way Davis sings them, need to be heard in more personal or more natural settings...
...proposals for the Nat Sci's, one of which was to be devoted to the biological and one to the physical sciences, emphasized a historical approach to the subject matter. This method, it was hoped, would fill a conspicuous gap in the knowledge a science concentrator would acquire in the Departmental science courses, as well as provide a worthwhile view of science for the student never again destined to see the inside of a laboratory. The only problem was staffing, and here, because of the absence of any Department of General Education, the instructors had to come from the regular...
...Soviet decorations, as if to say "They can't take that away from me," he stood at a buffet table, nibbling at hors d'oeuvres and glancing frequently at the enclosure where Khrushchev was shaking hands with members of the diplomatic corps. Voroshilov nipped through the gap between tables and joined Anastas Mikoyan and several friends who were obliged to clink glasses with him before a protocol officer steered him out of the exalted enclosure...
...balance-of-payments troubles are partly a condition of the cold war. The U.S. spends some $5 billion a year on foreign aid and for the support of its own and allied armies overseas. To overcome a payments gap so large as to threaten international confidence in the value of the dollar, U.S. traders must sell far more than they buy abroad...
Lately they have been doing that. The payments gap has narrowed from last year's $3.9 billion to an anticipated $2.3 billion this year (see chart). But in very recent months the gap has begun to widen again. Economic expansion in the U.S. has brought on a new demand for imports at a time when exports are declining. The Administration hopes to reverse this trend by spurring an energetic export drive. Last week some 2,000 businessmen who gathered in Manhattan for the annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council expressed confidence that the export drive would succeed...