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Tiny and glittering at 15,000 feet, a dozen four-motored Boeing Flying Fortresses (B-178) thundered distantly overhead. Down whistled 240 100-pound bombs. The eight blocks burst into a flaming, dusty cloud. When the smoke cleared, one of the pyramids was gone...
...being nothing but a Faculty administrative board with no students to administrate. Since then the revolting undergraduates have been partially mollified by Dean Landis' assurance that drafted men will probably be awarded their A.B. degrees if they have completed four years of study; yet doubts and uncertainty still cloud the problems, large and small, raised by the unique program...
This time the Nazi horror chamber competes with the forceful love of an American actress for the possession of Raoul St. Cloud, whose only crime against Germany is that he wrote a too critical review of "Mein Kampf," in 1931. For three acts and a period of twelve months love fights courageously, and--guess what?--finally prevails. But there is a twist to the ending: Raoul escapes from the concentration camp but the actress is seized by the Nazis with every indication that she will be held till he is recaptured...
...Storm Cloud on the Volga. Russia showed last week that it was also worried about the political weather of the area behind Marshal Timoshenko's lines. In the heart of Russia, by the Volga River, lay an ethnological storm cloud- the Volga German Republic. This was a colony of hundreds of thousands of Germans, descendants of peasants invited into Russia in the 18th Century by Catherine the Great. These Germans, potential fifth columnists, were last week ordered to move, bag, baggage and bomb, to Siberia...
...Case of Meadville. To most of Meadville's 18,919 people the priorities cloud last week looked no bigger than a man's hand. They knew that Talon, Inc. (zipper manufacturers) had been unable to buy any metal since Aug. 1, had laid off 800 of its 5,219 Meadville workers, had only enough inventories to keep going until next month. But Meadville has led a charmed life. Thanks to Talon's spectacular growth and a new American Viscose Corp. rayon plant, it scarcely felt the de pression of the '305. None of its three banks...