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...fields, there is practically no need of contact with society. If something is lacking here, the Institute trys to bring it into the academic community rather than to go out and meet it on neutral ground. The subject matter with which the Institute works is tightly confined by the strict disciplines of mathematical analysis and the historical method...
Potent Arm. Mayor Lawrence appeared on the municipal scene just when Financier Richard K. Mellon (Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Alcoa) and a platoon of lesser tycoons were preparing to rip their dowdy old city apart and rebuild it. Lawrence proved to be a valuable political ally. He ordered strict enforcement of smoke-control ordinances, pressured Democrats at Harrisburg and Washington to pass laws and approve appropriations that helped build new roads, bridges and dams. His reward: the business community's gratitude. Four years ago Lawrence's Republican opponent was not even invited to participate in the face...
...namely, to train men to do advanced work of an original nature, without either maiming them spiritually or assuming that they are Methuselahs. Such training should obviously include a wide grasp of what is already known--we ought not, however, to require all knowledge--and it should equally include strict introduction to methods and tools...
American monetary and technical assistance has been largely responsible for the maintenance of this strong counter-weight on Russia's southern borders, providing heavy subsidies for road building, harbor developments, and industrial construction as well as for strict military needs. But American help has been more than matched by the eagerness of the Turks themselves to develop a military force capable of restraining the Russians, for whom they bear an ingrained contempt. The Turks have been so eager to fight Communists, in fact, that they volunteered a highly effective brigade of troops for duty in Korea under the United Nations...
...common European market agreement was not considered to be as valuable in France as in the United States, Aron said. The professor felt that it will be hard to combine Germany's strict economic control policies with the more lenient methods of the French. He expressed the hope that commercial disagreements will not disrupt Franco-German relations...