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...happens that TIME believes that Spain ought to be included in the Atlantic Pact. Because we believe that, we might (with some logic) refrain from printing anything Franco wouldn't like...
...word "love" runs like a refrain through Bouche's conversation; it is implicit in his art. Humility shapes his art, too. The fact that he can never match the overflowing vigor of a Rubens or a Picasso does not bother him. He is content with painting quiet, tender little pictures as beautifully...
...China. "Last January," Reston wrote, "Secretary of State Dean Acheson was ridiculing the Chinese Nationalists in public, exhorting the Dutch and the French to recognize that a revolution had taken place in Asia, and emphasizing that the first rule of United States policy in the Far East was to refrain from doing anything that would drive the Chinese Communists and the Soviet Communists together...
...election: "This is the fundamental precept of democracy-the people elect and the elected man governs." An opportunist and master politician, the most skillful on the Latin American scene, supremely aware of the meaning of political power and how to use it, perhaps realistic and experienced enough now to refrain from abusing...
...asked them to name the two classmates they considered handsomest, the two they considered ugliest. With few exceptions, Haiker found, the pattern was the same: the handsome boys were also the most popular. No one liked the ugly ducklings. "I just can't stand him!" came the refrain. Just why looks should be so important to children, Teacher Haiker did not pretend to know. But the fact remained that the most unprepossessing boys could expect little love from their school chums. Even glasses were a risk: one handsome fellow got 17 votes as the best-liked...