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Neither Bevin nor any of the other ministers last week gave a clear indication of what their nations would try to do next. Yet the pattern was fairly clear: 1) the U.S. and Britain would try (with or without French cooperation) to put their zones of Germany to work; 2) through the Marshall Plan, the U.S. would try to lift distressed Europe out of Communist danger; 3) Russia would try to wreck both these plans...
...familiar to him, eating together in the Union, going to the movie in rapidly solidifying groups. In every place that the rude alphabetical democracy of the classroom does not apply this breakdown evolves. Later in the year it is a matter of applying for Houses, and the yard roommate pattern is altered...
...distinguishing feature of a Harvard education--is on the defensive. It's the exception rather than the rule. The genuine scholar, if he uses good judgment in choosing his courses and in going beyond the required minimum of work in order to organize his courses into a meaningful pattern, can make the most of his opportunity to study at the nation's number one college." The average undergraduate, not quite an honors candidate, is happy for four years without tutorial, without advice, without plan or overall concept--happy, but possibly in a fool's paradise...
Sunrise. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey followed Sun Oil Co.'s lead (TIME, Dec. 8) and boosted its buying price of crude by 50? a barrel. By week's end, the new price pattern had been established east of the Rockies and showed signs of spreading to the West Coast, where Union Oil Co. of California had already led off with a 40? increase...
Once past these technical barriers the evening was a success. Director Mary Howe used the stage to good advantage, although her actors seemed once or twice to move almost as in a rigid pattern. A slow opening scene was quickly erased by the arrival of the play's comies, and a tempo more conducive to holding a light mood was maintained through the remainder of the play...