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University officials announced the end of UNNRA aid to its assembled undergraduate body, and watched the determination in bodies that must undergo a greater fight against winter and loss of health than they had sustained against the Nazis. In Cracow, men and women at the Academy gathered in the lone building that had escaped the Nazis and heard the same announcement. To them it meant a further cut in rations that stood, in midwinter of 1946-47, at 600 to 800 calories per day. American doctors claim adult humans cannot survive below 900 calories daily. At Peiping, in torn China...
From here & there over the country telegrams cried bravo. In the midst of all these exclamation points came a lone period: a terse message from the Philharmonic board, releasing Rodzinski not at the end of the season, as he had asked, but at once. His spirits only soared higher. Elatedly, he jounced his two-year-old son's big clown doll on his knee and told it the news; he grabbed his 75-year-old mother around the waist, waltzed her around the room and cried exultantly: "Babushka, now we are going to Chicago...
Payoff. In Winchester, Ky., Deputy Sheriff R. L. Cruse swung his sledge hammer at a slot machine seized in a raid, hit the jackpot for a lone nickel...
...change. Theodore White and Miss Jacoby feel that American policy has more to offer than an endorsement of a social structure that the great mass of Chinese rejects. By pressuring the Nanking government into the widest possible program of reform, the State Department can set out on the lone path leading out of the Chinese political jungle. "Thunder Out of China" is a revolutionary document but it advocates that type of revolution-by-consent that holds the last hope for the future of China, with or without Chiang Kai Shek...
...United States must substitute wariness for any form of apriori sympathy. If the Soviets mean what they say about Spitzbergen, the only alternative for this country is staunch opposition. If the move is the demand for thirty where but fifteen is expected, America is left with the same lone path. The tragedy lies in the elimination of the other alternative--sympathy with Russian means based on confidence in Russian aims...