Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...call him the nation's finest back: "He's a slashing runner with great speed, and he hits with abandon." Also high on the pros' lists are Syracuse Junior Ernie Davis ("He's another Jimmy Brown"), Washington State's Keith Lincoln ("One of the real triple threats in the game"), and New Mexico State's Pervis Atkins, drafted last year by Los Angeles...
...policy on cross-eyed Ben Turpin to protect Sennett if Turpin's eyes should decide to go straight. Self-proclaimed originator of "the scarface policy," Stebbins later arranged insurance for Eddie Cantor's eyes, Jimmy Durante's nose, Marlene Dietrich's legs. Of course, the real purpose was publicity, and for sheer newsworthiness no policy before or since has been able to touch the masterpiece Lloyd's once wrote to cover bosomy Evelyn West and her "treasure chest...
...that kind of argument, Murray may be counted on. At present, he sees not even a "common universe of discourse." The various groups in the pluralist society do not share one another's premises or vocabulary so that only confusion, not real disagreement, results: "Disagreement is not an easy thing to reach." If anyone can help U.S. Catholics and their non-Catholic countrymen toward the disagreement that precedes understanding-John Courtney Murray...
...major nation with gold-backing requirements, which have actually been reduced over Switzerland and Belgium. The practical impact of the law is lost because the present U.S money supply is backed by 38% in gold instead of 25%. The Federal Reserve Board can suspend the backing indefinately in a real emergency, thereby depriving it of any solid gold status. Yet the reserve provisions leave so little gold left for international settlements-about $6 billion of the nations $18 billion stock- that when the level drops, foreign bankers get nervous and turn their balances in the U.S. into gold, thus speeding...
...December Book-of-the-Month choice, is on somewhat distant terms with literature, and Breathlessly intimate with today's headlines. Written with manifest good will, the novel unfortunately discriminates against character development in favor of cliches and plot-conditioned responses. But if the people are not quite real, their dilemma...