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...sooth Anniversary (see EDUCATION). He had marched in the academic procession with the world's intellectual great. Mounting the platform steps to get an LL.D. degree, he had caught his foot in the hem of his purple-trimmed academic gown. "Whups," he said. "I forgot to pull up my dress." The ceremonies over, he shook hands warmly. "It's been a great day for me. I enjoyed myself thoroughly." Then he had hurried back to Washington and delivered his veto of the labor bill...
Economic conferences would start immediately. Moscow, after some-confusion, decided to pull up for a closer look. The Russians complained that they did not know what the Marshall plan meant-or what Bevin and Bidault had been up to-but they agreed to a British-French-Russian exploratory conference in Paris, this week...
...square meals and two snacks a day.) The best solunar times vary with the longitude as well as the day, so Knight compiles different weekly tables for each of the newspapers. Each calculation involves the interplay of two forces-the sun's and the moon's gravitational pull-on a given spot on the earth's surface...
Last week Britons decided that if autos were to pull their weight in the export program, the strait jacket had to go. So, beginning next Jan. 1, there will be a flat annual tax of ?10 ($40) on all new autos, regardless of horsepower...
...President improve the chances of a program which must be considered administration-inspired, even with a non-partisan Secretary of State at the helm. The proposals will only too likely involve partisan politics, an inescapable danger with 1948 elections already tugging at the parties. Only a minor miracle could pull the plan from the clutch of politicians zeus fully reaching for campaign fodder...