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...view of the American trade deficit, both the trade concessions and the loan prepayment are especially opportune. Both were made possible by sound fiscal policies and a progressive attitude towards world trade. If the United States is incapable of these enlightenments, it should at least refrain from extending an anachronistic protectionism...
...world peaceful but so boring that the trainer decided to release the flea again and start the cycle all over. Although most critics found the atonal opera "a joke in bad taste," some had kind words for its opening striptease scene executed to a honky-tonk blues refrain that seemed to summarize the composer's sense of futility...
Last week, in New York's Supreme Court, came a haunting echo of the old refrain. This time Baby Gloria, now thrice wed and svelte at 35, was the mother battling for control of her own children, Stani, 8, and Christi, 7. Against her was arrayed the forbidding personality of husband No. 2 (1945-55),* Orchestra Conductor Leopold Stokowski, famed for the way he overbutters his Bach. This time Mother was the victor...
From the balcony comes the screech of a man's voice proclaiming a poem. Its refrain: "Hail to thee, Kassem, our jewel, defender of democracy, destroyer of our enemies...
Today's chaperonage rules are also in line with the Radcliffe concept of few regulations and great freedom. Three simple statements, buried on a little-perused page of the Student Handbook, require students to refrain from visiting a man's apartment without another girl, to procure the chaperonage of an older couple for a private party after 1 a.m., and to observe the parietal rules of men's dormitories. Whether or not these honor-system rules are actually obeyed seems to be a matter for dispute. Deans and students are disinclined to change them, however, claiming that the rules function...