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...refusal of the Cambridge Red Cross to abandon the Club 100 as their meeting place today, the University-wide Committee's picketers completed the coldest five hours in the eight-day tenure of the line at 12:45 o'clock this morning...
...real target), but it also pushed labor toward the left-and persuaded many unionists that MacArthur had developed a filicidal anti-union bent. Since then, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's failure to curb inflation has increased tension, and has confronted SCAP with a set of unattractive alternatives: 1) to abandon all strike control and risk governmental and production collapse; 2) to take over immediately full economic direction of Japan, thus puppetizing the government; or 3) to invoke drastic measures to prevent all strikes, in violation of U.S. teachings...
...from the standpoint of many members of the Faculty. In advanced courses, hour exams are often totally unsuited to the nature of the plan of study, with the result that they form an artificial and thoroughly unfair method of measuring student ability. Tutors find that their tutees have to abandon tutorial work for a period of a week or more in order to prepare for hour exams. And finally, many members of the Faculty, working within the constrictions of the war-shortened semester, find that the necessity for giving hour exams further reduces their lecture time, as well as burdening...
...that more & more restriction is not the answer to its trade problem. On April 8, when Britain sits down at Geneva with the U.S. and 16 other nations to talk tariffs, the British are prepared to make an act of faith. They may surprise other delegates by offering to abandon a big part of the Empire preference system in return for tariff concessions in the hard-money countries, particularly...
...Britain has a lot of industrial know-how. Americans who think they have a national copyright on that term would do well to abandon the illusion. Britain has tangible industrial resources. Not all plants are worn out. Not all management is behind the times. Britain is not literally broke...