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...With a series of four meetings scheduled for today and tomorrow, discussion at the New England regional convention will center around the NSO constitution draft prepared by the staff and executive committee of the NSO," Miss Miriam Haskell, Smith '47, and temporary regional chairwoman, asserted last night...
Other facts & figures showed the difficulties under which the nations labored, trying to keep their populations alive. From a prewar base period, when the world fared moderately well, China's farm draft power (horses, tractors, etc.) had dropped 20%; Italy's, 26%; Austria's, 40%; Yugoslavia's, 54%; Poland's, 64%; Russia's, 65%. Food distribution was slowed by the war wreckage of transportation systems, resulting in spoilage...
Instead, Oppy went back to his twin professorships in theoretical physics at the University of California and Cal Tech. On the side, he helped draft the Lilien-thal-Acheson report, since January has headed the committee of distinguished scientists advising the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Senate side, Robert Taft had run into opposition. New York's G.O.P. freshman Senator Irving Ives, commanding a majority coalition of Republicans and Democrats on Taft's labor committee, had managed to water down Taft's working draft until it was only a pale version of what Taft wanted. For Taft it was one of the worst lickings he had ever taken. In a fury, he prepared to carry the fight to the Senate floor, there try to put back everything that Ives & friends had taken out. There would be high, hot winds in the Senate soon...
...word editorial. (He "must have warmed the hearts of millions," said PM-but conceded that this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups, his 4-F draft status, his crooning activities during the war, his meeting with ex-super-pimp Charles "Lucky" Luciano in Havana-little-noted Columnist Mortimer suddenly attained the stature of a Dreyfus, and a fortune's worth of publicity...