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...news hit the headlines with a crash like a brickbat sailing through a precinct station window. Britain's refusal to grant Irish unity was an understandably serious problem to the Irish-but should it be allowed to split the two principal allies in the cold war? Ireland's Prime Minister John Costello applauded Fogarty heartily and said a few statesmanlike words about "free peoples of the world" and England's "great wrong." Somebody fired off a bomb in Belfast (a small one which only injured one policeman). But a great many earnest U.S. citizens shredded their morning...
...eight debates on the National topic, the debaters won the negative four times, and split the affirmative with two wins and two losses. Outstanding individual performers were William C. Packer '51 with four wins and no losses, and Melvin L. Zurier '51 with a perfect record in three debates...
When he began actual operations two years later, Hugo took an artist's pains with his work. He soaked a real $5 bill in water and then-in a maddeningly delicate operation-split it in two. He oiled the halves until they were transparent, laid them on wax tablets covered with photosensitive jelly, and exposed them to light. After that, he brushed the two tablets with fine graphite, suspended them in a copper sulphate solution with pieces of pure copper and made master plates by electrolysis...
United World Federalists, boasting wider public support than Streit's Atlantic Union Committee and some just as well-known backers,*would work out its proposal through U.N. The Cord Meyer group argued that Streit's proposal would split the non-Communist world, create a group of unhappy and neglected "Jim Crow" democracies. Under the Federalists' plan, the U.N. itself would be transformed into a world government. If Russia stayed out, the other nations would go ahead with their organization anyhow. No one but a bemused dreamer expected Russia would stay in in good faith. Streit...
After two days in London, the Americans split into three groups for tours of Manchester, Edinburgh and other cities. In some cities, the Americans found the speaking platform crowded with the mayor and other local dignitaries. The Americans politely told them: "One of the first selling points is that all attention must be concentrated on the salesmen. So if you please, we'll have to clear the platform." The astonished dignitaries politely stepped down...