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Besides that, I think flying is the best way of seeing the country," he adds, "and if we can create a wider interest in private planes, there will be lower prices followed by still wider interest...
Yale last week opened its ivy-covered doors wider to accommodate some of the thousands who knocked there. The University announced that it would increase its fall enrollment a whopping 54% over its prewar average (to 8,000). More than half will be veterans...
Paris theaters are spread all over the city, and each draws on a neighborhood audience as well as a wider public. But theaters very far off the beaten track have tough sledding, and some, like the Pigalle in Montmartre, have never had a hit. Many theaters, furthermore, are "typed"-the saying goes that at the Palais-Royal there is always a bed on the stage. At the Palais-Royal it used to be traditional, too, for a nude woman to dash across the stage once during the evening. That was what the regular customers came for; but they got bored...
...first boxing in the settlement basement) were added one by one. Over the years, after the soap & water, came the art: a music school, a children's theater, woodcarving, pottery. In 1917 the settlement moved to bigger quarters on Barrow Street. Mrs. Sim agitated for slum clearance, wider streets, parks...
Russian policy alternates between spasms of aggressive expansionism and fits of sweet reasonableness. Last week the pattern of Soviet truculence was wider, deeper, more varied and more significant than the stubborn Russian cynicism which deadlocked the Foreign Ministers' Council meeting last October. In technique the truculence ranged from espionage to open fighting; in principle it ranged from persistent denial of free speech to violation of treaties. It endangered the UNO charter by use of the veto (the first by any power) on a relatively trivial issue;, it endangered the preparation of the peace treaties by consistent refusal to make...