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...white trays easily, have more usable food space, and are good to look at as trays go. There is just one hitch. the partitions separating the food compartments are too low--and french dressing constantly mixing with the mashed potatoes will be discouraging enough to offset the many good features of the new trays...
Ready to Cross? "We have now substantially cleared South Korea of organized Communist forces . . . The enemy's human wave tactics definitely [have] failed . . . With the development of existing methods of mass destruction, numbers alone do not offset vulnerability inherent in . . . deficiencies . . . [in] tanks, heavy artillery and other refinements science has introduced into the conduct of military campaigns . . . Red China . . . has been shown its complete inability to accomplish by force of arms the conquest of Korea...
...Queuille's plans for a new government, no party's sentiments were overlooked. He offered the Socialists and other leftist deputies an increase in the minimum wage. Rightists were assured that resulting price boosts would not be offset by widespread consumer subsidies. Queuille promised the farmers a subsidy on commercial fertilizer prices, the workers a subsidy to keep coal and electricity prices from rising more than 10%. He said that he would raise funds for the new subsidies as painlessly as possible, by taxes on "uncommon goods" and exports...
...outlined three points that the U.S. should follow to achieve peace in the world. The country should first recreate a power equilibrium to offset the vacuum left at the end of World War II when Germany and Japan ceased to threaten Russia's borders...
...gift of words, while Dowd has some of the mighty human dimensions of folklore. And Actor Macken, who first played the part at the Abbey, brings real vigor to it, and the smack and caress of Irish speech. But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting. Too often both untidy and oldfashioned, it closed after four performances...