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Moses had a ten-point program for fixing up his part of the world. Woodrow Wilson had 14. Governor La Follette has five and Fulgencio Batista has 20 (see p. 24). Numerically pretty close to the average, therefore, is the eleven-pointer Herbert Hoover has evolved...
...symbolic value of the Fair's great ball and spike. At the other extreme, the Fair's publicity department, whose lyricism is more than adequate to its task, has described the Perisphere as symbolic of the all-inclusive World of Tomorrow and the Trylon as a Pointer to Infinity. To the architects who designed the centre, however, the Perisphere and Trylon make a good deal of plain, unsymbolic sense...
...fourth time, clouted the ball safely into .the outfield. Not hit so hard as Brother Rat, What a Life travels pretty much in the same direction. Substituting high school for military academy, What a Life is as adolescent as a changing voice, as clean as a West Pointer's white ducks. Chief amusement centres in Henry Aldrich (Ezra Stone), a cross between Penrod and Willie Baxter, who attends classes mainly in the principal's office. With a talent for head-on collisions, always ingenious, never crafty, always there with an answer, never with the right one, brash, bouncing...
...lecture three weeks ago on the need to balance prices, President Roosevelt singled out plaster as one article for which the price is too high. Leaning back in his chair with a long wooden pointer, he discussed a large graph showing that plaster prices are now twice what they were in 1929 (TIME...
...should be lowered and prices too low should be raised was not by itself a highly enlightening eco nomic doctrine. But as a political announcement it had force, for it laid at rest conjectures that the Administration was specifically bent on inflation. Professor Roosevelt picked up a slim wooden pointer and, leaning back in his chair, proceeded to elucidate his meaning with nine separate graphs on specific prices...