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Early this month, Millard F. Caldwell, the U.S. civil-defense boss, went grimly to Congress with a request for $535 million. Cities .and states were clamoring for civil-defense funds and guidance, he said, and he voiced a warning: "In our present state of unawareness and unpreparedness, a half-dozen bombs on as many cities, with a consequent million casualties, would so shock and benumb the American public that the very will to fight and win could be lost...
...foremost architects and regional planners in the world are right here in the Graduate School of Design and they have quietly drawn up plans for redeveloping much of the nearby property. But their work seems to have escaped the University's notice. If a building committee of a half-dozen active men were established, the Graduate School of Design would provide a continual source of new ideas and encouragement. Moreover the committee could work closely with the Cambridge Planning Board to improve several alum areas near Harvard and could push projects like moving the subway yards to North Cambridge. Certainly...
...Hicks. Margaret's best friends in Independence today are the half-dozen girls who lived within a block of her grandmother's house during her early schooldays. Bess, loath to have Margaret stray far from home, encouraged them all to come and play on Mrs. Wallace's lawn, where there were swings and a slide to lure them, and in the capacious Wallace attic and basement. There was an old slave quarters in a backyard close by, which had done time as a henhouse in its later years. There Margaret and her friends organized a club known...
...accident the Stimson and his half-dozen helpers all came from this school, or that military affairs in the last war were run so well. These men dealt with problems far removed from the classroom, yet they were using the intellectual equipment they acquired at Harvard...
...into White's and, when Bevan and Sir John left the club shortly after, followed them outside. Fox-Strangways' family motto is Faire sans dire-deeds without words. Silently, he landed a kick on Bevan's broad backside. The minister stumbled down the last half-dozen steps, was hurried into his car by Sir John. The Air Marshal declared later that Bevan behaved with "great restraint and dignity...