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...plane out of which it was cut: the economic world of the author. In the very choice of the "factors remaining equal" lies social philosophy. Quesnay and eighteenth-century France, Adam Smith and British industrial supremacy, Keynes and stagnation, are inseparably intertwined. Like political science, economic theory cannot be torn out of its historical context without losing substance...
This was the inevitable end of a country rotten with intrigue and corruption, honeycombed with foreign agents, torn by clashing internal factions, with all its fell forces suddenly let loose. Premier Antonescu must have remembered his words of a fortnight ago, as he optimistically left to sign with the Axis in Berlin: "I leave with complete confidence in the Rumanian people, I shall return with complete confidence in the German people...
...these fantastic barns the walls were lined with mirrors, floors were made of costly faience, each groom had a three-room, electrically heated apartment, the horses themselves stood or lay on expensive mattresses. For her part, Mme. Lupescu had whimsically ordered many buildings in Bucharest torn down simply because she disliked their looks. Before he left Bucharest for a trip to Rome last week Rumania's new dictator, General Ion Antonescu, had put a stop to these demolitions. One of Mme. Lupescu's last acts before fleeing the country had been to give her brother Constantin Shloim Lupescu...
...Harmon, who calmly tossed a forward pass for another touchdown. Running, passing and kicking until he was so exhausted that on one occasion he had to slow down in the midst of an end run, Harmon played a full 60 minutes, wound up with his shirt half torn off his back but still pitching successful passes. Final score: Harmon, 14; Reagan...
There was no letdown that day: into Pittsburgh the caravan rolled like a victorious army, through enthusiastic crowds that finally burst into one roaring welter of people and noise in the city's famed Golden Triangle, where blizzards of torn paper swirled and settled only to swirl up again as new waves of screaming rolled up. Only casualty: a motorcycle policeman hit on the wrist by a telephone book someone had neglected to tear...