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...House had a surface air of complacency; in fact, it could hardly muster a quorum. The reason was that most of its work-cutting Treasury funds by some $900 million, considering plans to improve the Panama Canal or admit Hawaii as a state-was being done in committee...
South Station Muster...
...himself had served on the fall caucus which had engineered the defeat of many of last year's alleged Communist officers. Benewitz, Charles Sellers '45, and Abraham Goldblum '46 did form an anti-communist bloc at the October balloting which forced election of all officers and was able to muster enough votes to carry a new group of men into office...
...items offered this year will incorporate the best engineering, mathematical, and psychological talent that toymakers could muster. Nevertheless, many of the new toys will be a gamble. Reason: children often show complete lack of interest in what toymakers and psychologists think they will like. Example: a new teething toy was carefully designed so that 1) its lollypop colors were most attractive, 2) it could be gripped in five different places, 3) it was scientifically measured to fit a baby's hand. So far U.S. babies have shown that they can take it or leave it alone...
...strong and well equipped, converged from four widely separated points in the mountains down into the town of Deskate, overran a company of Greek Army soldiers and a platoon of gendarmerie, inflicting heavy casualties, and finally captured the town. It took the Army, with all the force it could muster, three days to recapture the town, and even then they failed to encircle the bands, which retired, followed by 160 inhabitants of the town. They took with them a large stock of UNRRA supplies, including 3,000 blankets and hundreds of cases of food...