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...Intrigue Becomes the Pattern." Yet all this is only a drop of progress in a bucket of despair. The fields and villages of Iran are owned by several hundred feudal families who take from two-fifths to four-fifths of what the peasants grow. Under those terms, the peasant is neither able nor eager to improve the land or h's farming methods...
...reason is insecurity. Said a foreign diplomat who knows Iran: "Political fortunes are so fluctuating that officials hedge their bets. Life in or out of office is so uncertain that money seems the only sure thing; hence bribery flourishes. Where nothing and nobody appear trustworthy, intrigue becomes the pattern of action, and orderly government becomes impossible...
...Technician), and Sergeant Dailey is a dog of a fellow who likes to collect lipstick. Between snarling and nuzzling, they help the Army put on a show in a G.I. auditorium whose elaborate stage could pass for that of Radio City Music Hall. It all falls into a tired pattern, but there are compensations: the stars' dependable footwork, a bright spoof of Air Force life, and plenty of fresh clowning by Comedian Danny Thomas...
...universal military service is accepted as the pattern," Conant told the American Council on Education Friday, "there (should) be written right into the present bill provisions by which selective service will defer all those men who are today enrolled in our colleges, technical schools, and universities...
...Korea, the Eighth Army's Matt Ridgway said to Joe Collins: "There is no shadow of doubt that the Eighth Army can take care of itself." The pattern of last week's fighting (see below) made General Ridgway's assertion look better than it would have looked the week before...