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...might wonder how the Center is supported and its followers clothed, fed and housed. In answer to questions, followers will look upward and say. "We don't know where it all comes from. Our Lady takes care of us. Isn't it wonderful?" Further questioning shows their sincere belief in this answer...
...result of this inadequate information, our armies, were wide open for the massive Chinese counter-thrust that rolled them back below the thirty-eighth parallel. General MacArthur suddenly revised his estimate of the Chinese forces upward from sixty to two hundred thousand troops and admitted his hopes of facing only a token volunteer force of Chinese were shattered. This revelation that his estimate of enemy force was based on hope and publicly announced Chinese policy spotlights the failure of his military intelligence service. And the man responsible for this failure, General Willoughby, cannot explain it away merely by exploding against...
...families, and tend to be prop school graduates. Fewer of them have scholarships, take part-time jobs, or work for honors in their academic fields. Pugh says that "It might tentatively be suggested as a hypothesis that lower class students, who are by definition trying to be socially mobile upward through the education channel, must be more interested in the formal curricular and so do not have the time or the money to drink as much or so often...
...rainswept runway at Toronto's Downsview Airport, a stubby little blue-grey plane took off after a 500-ft. run and nosed upward into a steep climb. It turned back over the field at 170 m.p.h., did tight circles and vertical banks. Then the pilot cut his speed to a plodding 55 m.p.h. and drifted over, waggling his wings to show his control of the aircraft even on the brink of a stall. At the landing, the brakes stopped the plane within 500 feet...
...Diggings. Why hasn't U.S. copper output bounced upward like steel and aluminum? The fact that even a giant like Anaconda needs the promise of a Government subsidy gives part of the answer. Like the rest of the copper industry, Anaconda has mined its richest ores, left little but high-cost ore in the ground. A hundred years ago, mined ore in the U.S. averaged 20% copper; now it averages less than...