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This week, after the two weeks' wrangle over procedures, the Conference got down to its business-the drafting of peace treaties with Germany's satellites. On every issue confronting the Conference, the pattern would be determined by Russia's effort to squeeze from victory in the war the last drop of political advantage in the postwar world. Whether Russia's dynamic advance would continue or be halted peaceably depended largely on how much Molotov at Paris enlarged Moscow's somewhat limited ability to win friends & influence peoples...
Fifty miles northeast of the Island of Hispaniola lies the Milwaukee Depth.* There the ocean's floor scoops down 30,246 ft. There, last week, the earth's crust ground silently against itself and distant seismographs marked the characteristic pattern of an earthquake on their sensitized film records...
...join, they explained, were not given food or a place to sleep. Anyone who criticized the Russians in any way was promptly expelled. "We don't know what democracy is," said a dark, fragile girl student, "and the S.E.D. is forcing us into the same pattern the Nazis...
...superior" intelligence from comfortably fixed families. Most of the youngsters went from the Clinic's guidance nursery to elementary public school. Dr. Gesell intends their behavior-biographies as rough guides for parents and teachers of the Five to Ten group. But he warns: "Every child has an individual pattern of growth, unique to him ... he travels by his own tailor-made time schedule." His findings...
Atop a wave of postwar business mergers, two whitecaps stood out last week: J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., one of the oldest names in the U.S. textile industry, wove a new pattern with nine fabric manufacturers.* The proposed combine would put 28 mills under one management, give the company the industry's biggest capitalization: $75 million. The fabric would be loosely woven, with each company keeping its present management and operating as a division of Stevens. Biggest advantage: common ownership of mills making rayon, cotton and woolen fabrics, as a hedge against a collapse in the market...