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...Harvard front, the Guerrilla Unit under the leadership of Alan G. Grant, Jr. '45 has completed the first steps of basic training and is about to start working as combat teams. In conjunction with this, they will learn some of the latest techniques developed on world battlefronts...
Wryly Nehru has admitted a basic factor in Indian life: the national symbol is the cow. To the Indians the cow is sacred because it stands for the giver of plenty, the tie of human nature to the animal and the soil, the quiet, contemplative qualities which the Eastern mind respects...
...basic cause of the "urban insanity zones," researchers conclude, is the social disorganization of city life. Great numbers of foreign-born and their children have lost their old cultures and have not yet become integrated in U.S. life. In rooming-house districts, white-collar workers are isolated and lonely amid impersonal throngs. The number of unmarried men, socially and biologically at loose ends, increases toward a city's core. And as urbanization increases, the group control of a homogeneous society-symbolized by the U.S. back fence-disappears. Standards of group and personal behavior break down together when the anonymous...
Private Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of PM, started basic training with an Engineers shore regiment at Camp Edwards, Mass...
Author Moore's book was not written for readers who want the basic motivating facts behind Japanese aggression. He terms it "an intimate record" of his years as counselor. It is neither more nor less. For Author Moore's work was among the shadows projected by Japanese imperialism across the Pacific. He rarely saw the men whose guiding movements made the shadows dance...