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...said, preclude a journey to Moscow until after the parley at the summit. Said one Christian Democratic Deputy admiringly: "A cooing dove on the rooftop won't make the Chancellor give up the sparrow he's got in the hand." Said President Eisenhower: "We have the utmost faith and confidence in him, and we know one thing-he will stand by his allies and friends.'' Two Germanys. The problem, and the prize, is not 79-year-old Chancellor Adenauer but the Germany that will come after him. When Adenauer did not hustle off to Moscow...
...while we resist, let us do everything we can-not because of the Supreme Court but in spite of the Supreme Court-to raise the cultural and educational levels of all of our people. We should continue to do our utmost to assure education for every child, white and colored alike...
...spots of wax where the 13th century canvas had deteriorated. To him the spots spelled encaustic, a method of painting with pigments mixed in hot wax, which was common among the ancients. Cellini dissolved the glue between the canvas and the panel on which it was mounted. Slowly, with utmost caution, he peeled back the canvas, preserving it in the process. On the panel underneath was an encaustic painting which churchmen of the Middle Ages had apparently thought too old-fashioned to keep. The ancient Madonna gazes with Byzantine intensity from eyes wide and dark as night...
...Seemingly a modest number, but considerably more than the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, which taxed Bostons' medical facilities to the utmost with 181 cases. * Originally, according to Webster: "The process of grading marketable produce...
...years recognized the importance of speech training in college education. Many engineering and technical schools, realizing the scientist's difficulty in making himself understood, have also required speech courses of all students. Harvard's own speech program is shoddy in comparison. While good written expression is given the utmost concern here, general teaching of clear, concise speech habits is almost neglected. The University offers only three courses in public speaking. One of these cannot be taken for credit; another is limited to fifteen members. None of these courses, all taught under the English Department, may count either for concentration...