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Even the most austere Cornell undergraduate who may lead a sterile social life most of the year has two annual flings, the Spring and Fall Weekends. The "Big Weekends" are time for calculated abandon during which, on a structure of football or crew races, as the season demands, the University student body consumes an immense amount of drink, stages float parades, and throws an endless number of parties...
...Abandon the most fatuous and debilitating slogan that ever misled a generation," he told Brown undergraduates last week at the opening of a new college year. "Give up security as an ideal. Anyone who promises security is misbranding his political, social and economic goods ... If you insist on being cheated, buy gold bricks or perpetual-motion machines...
...President himself, confined to Washington by the Korean war, did not entirely abandon plans for invading Ohio, and he planned at least to bombard the No. 1 Republican position by radio before Election Day. Taft's opponent, State Auditor Joseph T. ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson, was adding to the fireworks with a far more effective campaign than even his supporters had expected, although he conceded that a Democratic victory would come more from votes against Taft than from votes for Ferguson...
...Communist leaders, if Russia suffered real destruction, could abandon their own industrial cities and set up their new power centers in the great capitals and industrial complexes of Western Europe. Confronted with such a vast fact, the U.S. would be faced with these alternatives: 1) to try to bomb the Russians out of Europe, which would mean utter destruction of the ancient seats of Western civilization; 2) to mount an invasion of Europe, in the teeth of the Red army forces and their atomic bombs; 3) to let the Communists keep their hold on Western Europe-and pray...
There had been no abandon-ship order; crewmen, Navy nurses, doctors, dentists and scores of workmen from the Navy Yard simply launched rafts, or planks, or belted on life jackets and jumped for their lives. Toward the end, men waded into the freezing water which lapped up the decks, like bathers walking off a beach. But within 3? hours, in a remarkable rescue, 492 of the living had been lifted from...