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...dollars. The third approach, and the one most likely to receive Congressional approval, is Representative Olin Teague's idea of paying all tuition funds directly to the veteran, instead of to the institutions as the other two bills recommend. The Teague bill provides for higher personal allotments and a fiat grant of approximately $270 per year for tuition purposes...
...Army game was the pivot. From then on, the varsity played exciting, if not razzle-dazzle football. This was one of the encouraging things the 1951 squad did for Harvard football. It came up from fiat on its back to put on hard-played, crowd-pleasing shows the rest of the year, even if it did not win every game. The Crimson lost to Princeton, for example, by a greater margin than to Cornell. Yet the Tigers' victory seemed much less of a rout than the loss...
Elsewhere the authorities found other caches: under an electric crane in Turin's Fiat steel mill, 29 light machine guns and other arms; in a field near the Milan railway line, three Sten and five Bren guns, 80 grenades, etc.; in a zinc coffin buried under the sports field of an auto plant near Milan, one mortar, one small antiaircraft gun, three Bren guns...
...listeners, who had taken almost every available seat before the concert started, also heard the Sonata No. 1 in E Fiat Minor by Hindemith and Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor...
...painter, De Chirico long ago lost his punch; as a peddler, he still has plenty of push. In June, the superannuated master proved it with an eye-catching ad for Fiat automobiles (TIME, July 3). Last week he was again honking his own horn at a conservative sideshow to Venice's vast international roundup of modern art, the "Biennale" (TIME, June...