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...wear the Crimson spangles since the start of Wes Fesler's coaching regime here. In Captain Lupien the Varsity quintet has a dependable defensive player and a sterling competitor. He gave B.U's Solly Nechtem a tough fight, never allowing him to get a shot within the free-throw area, and Lupe held his Wesleyan foe scoreless...
...Harvard faces a food shortage as a result of the Boston area truck strike, one of the places students will be unable to go to augment dining hall fare is the Harvard Square Georgian Cafeteria, for after a six weeks' truce 40 of the Georgian's 47 employees walked out Saturday night and the management has closed up shop...
...This area is about the size of Michigan, has a comfortable climate, yet has a population of less than 100,000. It is generally considered an arid country, yet our own government reports at least 5,000,000 acres of excellent farming land, with more available after suitable irrigation. There is excellent commercial fishing and some mining there also...
...heart of this new country is the mountain-girdled upper valley of the Yangtze, an area approximately 1,000 miles from East to West and 1,300 miles from North to South. Below it lie the steaming jungles of Burma and French Indo-China, west of it lie the mountain fastnesses of Tibet, northwestward the desert plateaus of Turkestan (Sinkiang) and Mongolia...
Last month the name of Czechoslovakia was officially changed to Czecho-Slovakia. This week the hyphenation was made significant when the autonomous Slovak Government took occasion to discharge Czech (and Jewish) professors and officials in the Slovak area. "Slovakia for the Slovaks," was the slogan of a campaign which marked another big fissure in the disintegration of the State of Eduard Benes and Thomas Masaryk pulled but could not hold together...