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...fears. In addition, last week came predictions from Washington that last year's sharp rise in consumer prices was likely to ease off this year, which also pleases the Street. By March, if the market does indeed roll into the 900s on its own momentum, there seemed a likelihood that a stable economy might keep it rolling...
Liberals and radicals have their rhetorical questions also. Is it fair to ask the poor, who presumably will be attracted to a volunteer army, to fight our wars? Shouldn't there be some feeling of community, a desire to distribute, if not death, then the likelihood of death, among all classes in the population...
...legions in the dense Teutoburger Wald, to Germany's present-day resurgence, the country has been painted, sculpted anc dissected in words by friend and foe alike. Author Maurois, who has also done illustrated histories of France and England, is guardedly optimistic abou the German future, sees little likelihood of a new Nazism but warns that "Bismarckian nationalism always will remain a possibility...
...Barka? It is almost exactly a year since the diminutive exiled Moroccan leftist leader vanished from a street in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. For the past several weeks the knotty mystery of his disappearance has been unraveling in a Paris court. All the evidence confirms the likelihood that he stepped willingly into a black Peugeot and was whisked to a villa in a Paris suburb because he believed that envoys of his old political enemy, Morocco's King Hassan II, were trying to contact him with an offer to return home for a reconciliation with the King...
...infectious in the same way as influenza or measles-"To this day," says Dr. Rous, "I have found no case where a tumor has been transferred from one person to another." Nor does it necessarily even mean that any human cancer is caused by a virus, but the likelihood of this seems so great that around the world tens of millions of dollars are now being spent annually by scientists to see whether Rous's long-maligned discovery can lead the way to control of some cancers in man. Dr. Rous himself, though "retired for age" 21 years...