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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the Allied Council for Japan was set up at war's end, the Russian members have battled doggedly with U.S. representatives over everything from land reform to schoolbook censorship. But from the start they appeared more or less resigned to U.S. predominance in Japanese affairs, and the council was spared the almost daily Russian flare-ups and walkouts of the now comatose Allied Control Council in Berlin. One day last week the Russian tactics changed: burly Lieut...
Leisure to Invest. Modern man's increased leisure, largely due to power-driven machines, is having an effect only a little less basic. For one thing, the average man now can let his children be educated; they are not needed immediately for productive work. More & more of their early years can be invested in education-which makes them more productive later on. In the 19th Century few children went beyond grammar school. Now some 40% of U.S. children go through high school, about 7% graduate from college. One important byproduct: more trained personnel for the research laboratories that...
...Illinois, 24 were shown to have narrowing of the arteries. Such cases, the two doctors believe, might easily develop into coronary thrombosis (bloodclotting which closes the main arteries), angina pectoris, high blood pressure-or all three. If the weakness is spotted early, the patient can promptly begin leading a less strenuous life, and perhaps postpone more serious heart trouble for years...
Once he sounded a note strangely akin to modesty: "Do not think of my plays as Oklahomas averaging $120,000 a week or else flopping. My audiences are more or less select and . . . seldom average capacity." But elsewhere in his torrent of advice, the old man sounded reassuringly Shavian: "I rank a revival of Caesar and Cleopatra as the nearest thing . . . to a gilt-edged security...
...settings of her oils were Edwardian drawing rooms with striped wallpaper and horsehair sofas, and idyllic landscapes with castles and waterfalls. They were peopled, reasonably enough, with whale-boned ladies, poker-faced children and prim nannies, and, less reasonably, with mild-seeming lions, tigers, seals, leopards, lemurs, alligators and bears with nose chains. Animals took the place of men in E. Box's dream world...