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...Americans, seeing Europe from a distance and therefore as a unit, had often been better Europeans than many Europeans. Thus, when the U.S. offered the Marshall Plan in 1947, it shrewdly insisted that the European nations cooperate in estimating their needs and in spending the funds. OEEC, the multi-nation agency through which Marshall Aid was pumped into Europe, was a crucial example of cooperation. Followed by the NATO alliance, it prepared the way for Jean Monnet's boldly planned Coal and Steel Community, direct forerunner of the Common Market...
...tested by radiation experts. A zoo-cot hospital section and operating room have been marked off, and medical supplies are stockpiled close by (16 doctors and eight nurses are always available). Two existing company restaurants carry a daily food supply; to supplement that, Hancock has stockpiled 400 cases of Multi-Purpose Food (MPF), one can of which can feed a person for ten days. The company is also counting on 12,000 gal. of water in the building tanks, 25,000 gal. in the building pipes, and 1,250 cases of water in cans...
...summer whites, girls in their summer dresses, girls in slacks, pony-tailed skinks from Greenwich Village, and novice beards with the Penguin Classics in the hip hip pockets of their dungarees-fabricating laughter in all the archaic places. The crowd begins on folding chairs around a large and multi-proned stage, then spreads out onto bleachers and grass-covered slopes. About 3,500 turn up in Manhattan's Central Park each evening to watch the New York Shakespeare Festival's new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Trotter imposes weights for about 45 stakes races and 50 overnight handicaps each season, gets $25,000 a year for his labors-but does not bet any of it on the horses. Though he has never realized the handicapper's ideal of a multi-horse dead heat, he has had some satisfying moments. His best: for last year's Citation Handicap at Chicago's Washington Park, he assigned 121 lbs. to On-and-On, 114 to Little Tytus and Better Bee, 110 to Top Charger. Then he watched them fight to a photo finish, with only...
...portray a white-coated figure shoving aside microscope and test-tube cultures to examine the culture on a woman's campus, a myopic biologist diverted from the study of heredity and variation in micro-organisms to stumble upon the astonishing mechanism of human evolution, our modern, creative multi-structured institutions of ever higher education...