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...deadly prattle of machine guns fell silent, like an embarrassed gap in conversation. On Korea's freezing hillsides, U.N. soldiers smoked casually in the open and talked of home. On the 3rd Division's front (see WAR IN ASIA), a lieutenant told his men: "There has been an order for a ceasefire, men. Did you get that? A cease-fire." A front-line Associated Press dispatch from Korea reported: "Orders from the highest source, possibly from the White House itself, brought the ground fighting to a complete, if temporary, halt...
Contrary to legend, most of the big corporations which have recently built Southern plants were not primarily searching for cheap labor. Some Southern wages are still lower than Northern, but the gap is sure to narrow. Southern labor offers employers some other, solider advantages. The Southern labor pool is deep. (Mechanical cotton pickers, for instance, and other labor-saving farm machinery are expected to displace 2,000,000 field hands by 1965; many of them will be available for factory work.) The South's labor population is young and quick to learn. Employers who complain that they have...
...beat Leverett 33 to 28. Winthrop, despite Plato Pappas' 16 points, was beaten by Lowell, 40 to 23. Paul Altrocchi was high man for Lowell with 13 points. Dunster won over Adams, 37 to 34, although a drive by Adams near the end of the game almost closed the gap...
...Washington a State Department official, having worked out the key to a long cable in capital letters, puzzled over the word GAP, not being able to find it in his official list. An aide enlightened him: GAP meant simply gap, in this case the space between the amount of dollars needed in Europe and the amount the U.S. had to supply. It explained almost everything...
...freshmen who discover that they don't really need much in the way of financial aid are indicative of a common type around the College Some men always turn up with terribly low estimated resources and ridiculously high estimated expenses. The result is a simply monstrous gap for the FAC to fill up. For a man like this, Monro remarks, "if he wants to spend that much it's okay, but he's not going to get it from...