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...dining room on the oGld Coast, nearer the dorms than Mem Hall. It also suggested that the clubs be allowed to reserve tables. This suggestion was immediately approved by President Lowell, and the Corporation voted the necessary funds. At the last minute, however, student apathy forced the University to abandon the plan and the eating problem had to remain until the advent of the Houses...
...with an article in LIFE by John Foster Dulles ("certainly, he is no isolationist"), Taft pointed out that NATO guards only 500 miles of the Soviet dominion's 20,000 miles of frontier with the free world. "In fact, our leaders have become the new isolationists. They would abandon most of Europe and most of Asia to Russia, and adopt a purely defensive policy which has no hope of bringing freedom to millions behind the Iron Curtain...
...donkey's fault. The trouble, we think, is not that Columbus went too far . . . On the contrary, it is that we permit this influence, however well-intentioned, to encroach too much upon the English preserve. It is a sad reflection on our initiative. If the solution is to abandon the leisurely mediocrity which is still our stigma, then it is high time we got down...
...British still do not plan to abandon diplomatic recognition of Red China, though their chargé d'affaires in Peking has never been received by anyone higher than the second assistant to the Foreign Minister...
...unseasonable drought. But the full screenplay is hopelessly complicated and extremely disjointed, involving among other things a long lost son, a gambling house murder, a stampede, a dust storm, and a bull whip fight. Under these circumstances, the only way to retain your peace of mind is to abandon all attempts at following the story and take each incident as it comes...