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...Administration wisely avoided one big mistake: in 1946 it refused to go along with the plans of such bureaucrats as former Housing Chief Wilson Wyatt (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to 1) strait-jacket the housing industry with rigid controls and 2) put the Government into the housing business with a vast program for prefabricated houses. (Most prefabs. with or without Government support, have had small success...
...pugnacious as terriers. U.S. military observers here are sure that they would give an excellent account of themselves if the Reds attacked Formosa. But at present, and certainly for the next year, the decisive factor in the defense of Free China must remain the U.S. Seventh Fleet, patrolling Formosa Strait...
...search," he claimed, "has been made easier as the rosiness has been stripped from Communism. But I hope this class can learn to live without a strait-jacket...
...enough to strait-jacket Kirk Douglas with this type of worn-out Western. Warner Brothers errs even further by creating a nutty Druid-like sect of tree worshippers who sport Amish hats and stand around righteously in the path of falling redwoods. Californians are admittedly capable of almost anything, but this is just too much to take. Then, in the agonizingly protracted struggle between timbermen and believers, Douglas goes gooey and joins the Druids (who have given up their ethical principles and taken up arson...
...cool moon shone through the clouds, a British steamer, the Wing Sang, slid comfortably through the calm waters of Formosa Strait. She was on her regular run from Hong Kong to Formosa. The ship's 78 passengers were dressing for dinner or sipping cocktails. A Chinese lad of ten raced wide-eyed through the closing pages of Treasure Island...