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...topsoil in the valleys of central India, but the wheat has little chance against the predatory kans grass. For centuries, India's ryots turned their bullock-drawn, wooden plows against the kans roots, to no avail. With less & less yield from each sowing, the peasant would at last abandon his kans-infested wheatfield, blaming his ill luck on Saturn, considered an evil planet by Hindus. Between them, Saturn and kans choked some 10 million acres of hungry India's wheatlands...
After all, what more indication of the womb-like nature of college is needed than the behavior of an alumnus returning for a reunion? He tries to abandon for a week or so all his "responsibilities," to immerse himself in an ivied atmosphere where comfortable memories subsist in every cranny...
...position to talk freely. He did. Wedemeyer tossed a cord of fresh logs on to the dying bonfire of the MacArthur controversy, bluntly criticized not only Dean Acheson but also his own old friend, George Catlett Marshall. And he had a startling plan for dealing with world Communism: abandon the Korean campaign and come to an open break with the U.S.S.R...
...Class of '51 begins several days of calculated abandon tonight with a Senior Spread, a formal dance, and a midnight dance in the courtyard of Eliot House. The festivities will begin at 10 p. m. and will carry on until...
...dusk approached and the Chinese did not let up, Hawkins from his plane ordered the battalion to strip and abandon the two tanks that were still stuck, and start back. As the column headed south, Chinese jumped out of foxholes and attacked the U.S. armor on foot. Some 30 Chinese were killed...