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...Frantic Fractions. It is impossible for correspondents to get permission to move freely in Zone B. But I managed to get a pass to drive from Trieste to Pola, which a small British detachment occupies. The Yugoslavs have marked off one highway as a supply route for the British. Allied vehicles are not allowed to stop at any point, and are fired on if they leave the road...
...average citizen didn't seem to care much, one way or another, about all these manifestations, just so he went somewhere. By last week-after months of frantic scheming-millions were vacationing. Long-shuttered estates of the rich were being reopened at Southampton, Easthampton and Newport. New England resorts and beach hotels from Bar Harbor to Sea Island were awash with guests. Most desk clerks were not discussing reservations-except for the summer...
Terror. One frantic man tied sheets together, dangled his wife outside a window. His strength began to fail. For a while he called hoarsely for help. Then with a desperate effort he pulled her back. A woman seized her four-year-old daughter and jumped. Her husband leaped with her. They fell together-very slowly it seemed-and thudded on the roof of a court below...
...natural for the movies. Sure enough, the minute wartime secrecy was ended, several major studios began stumbling over each other to riffle through the official files. Paramount hired 30 ex-O.S.S. heroes (as technical advisers and bit-players) and shot thrill-packed scenes for seven frantic weeks. Result: Paramount has beaten all competitors with the first movie based on O.S.S. case histories. It is not very good...
...dealing with College, national, and international issues, the Crimson asked Quo Vadimus?, questioned the University on the progress of its General Education plan, the adequacy of its adjustments to veteran influx, and its proclaimed intention to admit more "healthy, normal extrovert" students; it queried the United States on its frantic return to normaley, the United Nations on its Big Four domination and atom bomb fumbling...