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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Johnson's answer was hardly calculated to still the clamor. The facts were, said Johnson, that the U.S. armed strength had been greatly increased in the past two years, that his defense economies had never cut into U.S. fighting forces...
...have salted away abroad. In this way a stockpile would be built up in case of a new world war, which the Muchachos complacently expect. To attract more foreign capital investment into the country, restrictions were eased on the transfer of foreign companies' profits abroad, blocked for the past three years...
Pioneer in the composition of English congregational hymns was Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Author of Our* God, our help in ages past, often voted the greatest English hymn of all, Watts was also a writer of hymns for children, authored the well-known query, "How doth the little busy bee . . ." and the warning that "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." But his touch for juvenile hymns is not always suited to modern taste. For example...
...Britain for the past fortnight, thousands of scientists have been getting together to discuss ways & means of making the world a less perilous place to live...
...past two months, U.S. televiewers have been getting a drama diet with a loftier intellectual content than that of Broadway. The high-vitamin source is Masterpiece Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV), which began its experimental run with Ibsen's suicidal Hedda Gabler and ends it this month with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. This week, for its sixth performance, Masterpiece staged a fast-paced, absorbing performance of Shakespeare's Othello...