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...Abandon Straw Vote...
With only 32 persons present at the seven House forums held last week, the Constitution Committee was forced to abandon its plan of following the straw vote dictates of the College on controversial issues of Council makeup. With so few undergraduates present, Weld asserted, the votes meant next to nothing. "Under the circumstances," he said, "we have decided to go ahead and put out the best constitution the Committee can put out independently...
Last week, Rabun paid a Thanksgiving Day call on Parishioner Talmadge, who has long played footie with the K.K.K. Reported the new pastor: "He didn't agree with me, but he didn't tell me anything to make me abandon my principles. I realize I am in hot water, but I'm prepared...
...what had provoked the shot, but the New York Times solemnly reported that the two Ukrainians were "large enough to be mistaken for detectives"; that, of course, explained it. Other aspects of the shooting might seem perfectly natural to New Yorkers, but inexplicable to Europeans, who can never quite abandon their ingrained belief that the U.S. scene consists largely of Indian massacres and gang battles. Could the law-respecting British, for instance, understand why two women customers who had seen the shooting failed to come forward until the police laboriously sought them...
Almost everywhere, from Germany to China, Russia and its friends had lost the ball. Secretary Byrnes's great September speech at Stuttgart had clearly announced U.S. determination not to abandon Europe and to work out a constructive solution for Germany. Communist defeat in the Berlin elections was followed last week by a new Russian policy which clearly placed the urgent needs of Russia's people above thwarted external ambitions. That the Russian effort to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Britain had also failed was attested by the repudiation of American neo-isolationists of the Wallace school...