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Fort Devens College was only meant to be a makeshift. It had been hastily put together in 1946 at a former Army post to handle Massachusetts veterans who couldn't get into other overcrowded colleges. In its heyday last fall it had an enrollment of 1,750' students. Last week, signalizing the decline of the G.I. boom, Fort Devens College gave notice that it would close up next spring for lack of students. Said Dean Wentworth Williams: "We are dying a natural death...
Showdown. New York City's new field is still short of ground facilities (it has only one makeshift administration building and two hangars), so the Authority did no more than try to contain the airlines' rebellion. It canceled the operating permits at La Guardia of such foreign lines as Peruvian International Airways, Scandinavian Airlines system, K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, Air France and Sabena (Belgian Airlines), in effect forcing them to accept its invitation to move to Idlewild. Domestic airlines which had their eyes on New Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal (20 minutes from Manhattan...
...Wallace Woodworth '24, director of the Glee Club, will mount his makeshift podium at precisely 8 o'clock and lead his group through the first part of the evening's entertainment...
Impatiently, the Senate Appropriations Committee summoned Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, who had originally asked for only enough money to fill out the present 55-group force. Under congressional prodding, he had produced a makeshift, economy-sized 66-group program. It would provide ten of the extra groups by taking 300 old B-29s out of storage, and modernizing them...
...Pfungstadt, a village near Frankfurt, a makeshift press rolled out Germany's first free newspaper since pre-Nazi days...