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With the other parts of the Trinity, Peace and Progress, the budget message failed to advance any constructve ideas. Instead of strengthening American military power in the face of the "missile gap," the President shortsightedly favored a cut in military expenditures, moving back even more the hope of "balanced" forces capable to fight all types of wars. Instead of proposing to use the budget surplus for school or highway construction, debt reduction must come first...
Only a decade after the period it describes, Kay Boyle's latest novel wears the mustiness of history. She is telling about the U.S. occupation of Germany in 1948: what the occupiers were like, how the occupied saw them, what chances decent, imaginative people found of bridging the gap between victors and vanquished. Author Boyle, a resident of postwar Germany, writes with her usual intensity and better-than-average documentation. And she can see straight to where it is uncomfortable for most people to look-into their own natures...
...long sets shots by Johnny O'Leary of Tufts, who contributed 13 points during the evening, and a tip-in by sophomore Henry Dodge, narrowed the gap to 33-28 after 18 minutes...
When Tufts again threatened to close the gap, big Eddie Cuffe took matters into his own large hands and drove to three consecutive layup baskets, two on feeds from Bowditch, at the nine minute mark...
Wald's course, which exists only in outline as yet, was proposed to fill the gap left by leaves of absence taken by four professors now teaching introductory and General Education courses in biology. It follows a precedent set by the Geology Department, which last year abandoned its introductory and accepted Natural Sciences 10 for concentration...