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...Formosa, General Sun commands 300,000 troops, is supported by Nationalist China's air force and navy. In numbers, the force seems imposing, but to TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder last week General Sun frankly conceded that he has a tough job of reorganization ahead of him. Only about half of Sun's troops will take his orders; the others feel themselves bound to generals who reject Sun's authority. Actually, Sun would prefer a smaller, more compact army than he now commands. Unreliable generals have been sacked right & left without regard to traditional face-saving niceties...
Academician Trofim D. Lysenko, ideological shepherd of Soviet geneticists, announced last week in Izvestia that Soviet agrobiologists can turn wheat into rye. All they have to do is plant wheat in places where the climate is tough for it. In a spasm of self-preservation, wrote Lysenko solemnly, the wheat turns into...
...varsity hockey team will bump into a tough customer at the Arena tonight when it seeks to return to winning ways against the ever formidable skaters from BC. Game time is 9 p.m.; Tufts and MIT open the program...
Without scrapping the rotating schedules, there remain two ways to case the burden on instructors teaching the courses involved. First, University Hall might advance the deadline for grades in those courses which meet toward the end of the exam period. If this would make it too tough for the Administrative Board to examine the grades of students going on or coming off probation, there is another possibility: The inter-term recess might be lengthened. This would allow instructors more time to deal fully with the bluebooks, and it would give students the satisfaction of knowing that a term's work...
Sweet Charity. Last week Reporter Browning's findings-a set of surprises for herself, Editor Maloney and presumably for the Trib's readers-were blazoned across the Trib's front page and on its circulation trucks. The nice-Nellie promotion men had a tough problem of finding a euphemism for the harlot Norma Browning had pretended to be, had toyed with "wayward woman," finally settled on "woman outcast...