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...that we are educating ourselves politically, that we sit down in earnest and quiet with atlas and history and follow your correspondents around the world; that our young son reads TIME as religiously as he does his Calvert lessons; that we feel we have a private periscope to search the wide horizons which stretch from this minuscule point of vantage, it makes dull reading but true...
...Behind the Scenes. Shouted at by bus drivers, buffeted in subways, battered by a strange language, the Puerto Rican is shy and afraid. He learns tracks through the urban jungle, never ventures far from them for fear of getting lost. Apartments are found only after a search of months and the newcomers must pay an average $600 for the furniture to fit out three cramped, scabrous rooms, renting for $25 a month...
...Good Boy. For months FBI agents toiled at matching these vague swatches of information against the yard goods in their files. They sifted through the affairs of more than a thousand suspected Communist agents. Then, a search of New York grand jury records produced a clue -a piece of testimony by Vassar Graduate Elizabeth Bentley, the reformed Communist courier. Jacob Golos, onetime Soviet spymaster in the U.S., who had been Miss Bentley's lover, once introduced her to a Philadelphia chemist named Harry Gold and had described him as a reliable link in the transmission system...
Onlookers plunged to their rescue. Sixteen youths who were playing bowls nearby leaped into the mass of choking children. Fisherman Bruno Pirollo pulled four little girls out, dived in again to search for his own Ivana. He did not find her. Don Moses Lionello dragged out two little girls, became hysterical. Maria Bessan had tightly hugged eleven-month-old Luigi during the fall, but had lost him struggling in the water...
When alumni and friends of New York University bought a macaroni factory in 1947 and dedicated the profits to N.Y.U., they were following a path already partly blazed by others. In a search for bigger & better returns on endowment money, some U.S. colleges and universities have been buying into all sorts of enterprises, from real estate to department stores, thus giving income from the properties their own exemption from corporation income taxes. If New York University's new macaroni factory could thus become tax exempt, its macaroni would go to market with a tidy advantage over most...