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...young man or woman who intends to become a certified public accountant should have a college education. In the beginning, ideally, a broad liberal arts course, four years if possible, then a graduate course with concentration on accounting, economic, and legal subjects. The accepted leader in present-day business is a man well-informed not only in his specialty but in cultural matters--history, government, international relations, languages...
Harvard has also contributed men to present-day public-life--men like David Lilienthal, Dean Acheson, and the late Robert T. Taft...
...will use her supernatural power to freeze the water solid. As a Herodian, she will eventually drain her lake bed dry. But in either case, says Toynbee, she will only transform her lake into a road and let in the "landlubber dry-shod." Roughly translated into the different, present-day situation (in which the West is very far from being "at bay"), the Zealots might advocate stringent repression of all hostile ideas, as well as dropping a few atomic bombs on Russia; the Herodians would favor gradual appeasement. Toynbee would consider both parties an "unmerciful pair of pedants." Both courses...
Delegate Albin Hartnett, Local 113 (Philadelphia): I read to you from the 1953 convention proceedings of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In your address, you said: "We are working hard to find ways and means to bring about an increase in the present 75? an-hour minimum to a more realistic level, in keeping with the present-day wage levels. We do not know yet what that level should be. I do know that the C.I.O. platform calls for $1.25. Just as soon as we come up with our findings, the Department of Labor will make recommendations to the President...
...poems are by turns idyllic, ironic and bitter. "Planners" Raw Deal and Decade of T'ang, which tell of a people's agelong suffering under tyranny, are particularly gripping against the background of present-day China. Although Pound, now 68, was charged with wartime sedition in 1945 and confined to Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital as "mentally incompetent.'' he proves once again that he is one of the finest U.S. poets alive...