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Neutral Ground. Harry Truman was now hell-bent to prevent the first travail. Just the day before, Murray and Fairless had broken up a fruitless two-day conference in U.S. Steel's Manhattan headquarters at 71 Broadway. They had come closer together than ever before, but not close enough. Phil Murray, who had originally demanded a flat raise of $2 a day, or 25? an hour, had backed down to 19½?. Ben Fairless, who had not made any offer before, had shown willingness...
...with its feet." Last week a nervous U.S. Government heard an impatient scraping of other feet-the G.I.s of a once-great U.S. Army. It had won a war with dashing gallantry but it still had a precarious political front to hold. G.I. Joe wanted to quit-and to hell with winning the peace...
...Unconvinced. The reason he is there is U.S. foreign policy, which he neither understands nor recognizes: U.S. forces are in China by international agreement, to support the Chinese Central Government. The average marine's reaction to that: "The hell with it-let's get outta here." As for preserving North China from the Communists, many marines say: "When we leave, the Communists will take it anyway-so why not let them have...
...find it utterly impossible to jest about Nietzsche and Dostoevsky as I have occasionally done in a novel about the egotistic child of a lucky star, Goethe, and in an essay about the colossal loutishness of Tolstoy's moralism. It follows that my reverence for the intimates of Hell, the devout and the diseased, is fundamentally much deeper-and only therefore less vocal-than my reverence for the sons of light...
...make her talk about her famed brother Francisco in Spain, got a discreet reply: "I have not seen Francisco since 1912." But Franco's middle-aged expatriate sister, who runs a suburban fruit store for fun ("I like the colors"), was more colorfully quoted by neighbors: "To hell with Francisco. . . . He was always a little effeminate...