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When a nation and a continent are sick at soul, it may sometimes happen that some seemingly irrelevant incident, some senseless isolated instance of violence or stupidity, serves better than acres of learned analysis to yield a bright flash of insight into the breakdown of normal social and human standards. Such an incident occurred last week near Wiener-Neudorf, in Austria's Russian zone...
...breakdown of the statistics of the game show the Crimson gained 200 yards and one date with a Wellesleyite rushing. The passing attack of the junior misses failed in the heat, and the scoring laurels clearly went to a collection of non-collegiate rooters who stole the applejack in the water bucket early in the last period...
...regional basis, a majority of 43 students come from Europe and Canada, 32 from Latin America, 6 from the Far East, and but I from the Near East. A breakdown by countries shows that Guatemala leads with 8 representatives, followed by Germany with 7, and by England and France with 6 apiece. No less than 13 countries are represented by one student apiece...
...week, industrial stocks took a sharp plunge on the London Exchange. Minister of Fuel and Power Emanuel Shinwell had denounced widespread rumors of impending power rationing as "malicious propaganda." But he himself had to admit last week that, unless coal production increased rapidly, there was grave danger of a breakdown in Britain's hard-struggling industry this winter...
Zimmerman is not bitter about these experiences. He is too busy pondering what he feels is one of the most serious single problems of the day: the breakdown of the family. An increasing divorce rate and decreasing birth rate point to a breakdown in the family system. "Juvenal saw this happening," says Zimmerman, "when he wrote that the object of Roman men of the time was to make their neighbors' bedsprings creak." Seeing similar signs of breakdown today, the professor feels that the larger problem can be attacked best through an attempt to shore up the foundation of the family...