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...political logic, all arguments point to union with Germany. But both sides recognize that the Saar is the smelter for the iron mines of Lorraine in France, and cannot thrive in the German market cut off from Lorraine. Even the Saar's Germans recognize this: in the 1952 elections, they gave a surprisingly heavy majority to parties supporting continued economic linkage with France. Ideally, most look hopefully for the day when a real European community would allow them to get their iron from Lorraine while allied with Germany politically...
...humanities course their discussion ranged from early Greek metrical forms to a comparison of a Beethoven string quartet and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. In social studies they have sampled everything from De Tocqueville to William Graham Sumner. But however tough the work, they seem to thrive. Says Chicago's Assistant Professor Guy Omer Jr. of his science class: "I drew the lessons from our third-year college work, and this bunch of high-school kids has on the whole done as well in five weeks' time as our third-year college students...
Although he journeyed often to Paris and other parts of France seeking subject material for his inspired brush, Painter Paul Cézanne always returned to his home town of Aix-en-Provence. He seemed to thrive best in the sunny, sleepy atmosphere of Provence, with its sloping vineyards bathed in Mediterranean light and its vistas of baked mountains seen though cool green pines. He liked to hire a carriage and ride out to a spot on the road south from Aix where the view of Mount Sainte-Victoire especially appealed to him. There, sitting beneath a pine tree...
...Director William M. Mann hopes that they will thrive, but he is not too confident. Sea otters have never been exhibited before, partly because of their rarity and partly because the odd conditions of their natural habitat are hard to simulate. They live in the great beds of kelp that fringe the shores of the North Pacific, where they lead an easy and highly specialized life, floating much of the time on their backs with their forearms folded over their chests. Whenever they feel hungry, all they need do is roll over and dive to the bottom for sea urchins...
Buddhists & Freethinkers. What can be done to reduce the ravages of stress? There is no single rule, for as Psychiatrist Douglas R. MacCalman points out, some men thrive on distractions and dangers that would send others to hospital beds. Suggested the bishop of Manchester: "The church is meant to supply, though I freely admit it does not always do so, one of those deficiencies of modern life which . . . cause stress and anxiety . . . Within the family life of the Christian Church...