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...German in dustrialists cancel a deal to sell pipeline to Moscow. Demanding that the entire subject of East-West trade be reviewed by the NATO Council, Adenauer insisted that the wheat would ultimately help the Russians fight the West, and he echoed a crack he had made in Mu nich earlier: "Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher...
Uncosmic Rays. The book's hero, Nich olas Rennet, is a brilliant American physicist whose creative powers are fast shriveling in the spiritual fallout from The Bomb, which he helped build. Intellectually and emotionally paralyzed, he attends a scientific conference in Moscow, befriends a Russian physicist whose experiments parallel Rennet's but whose conclusions do not. Rennet finally straightens himself out in a cliffhanging denouement three miles up in the Caucasus, while trapped by an avalanche. Along the way, Rennet, whose productive barrenness is matched only by his reproductive fecundity, seduces his own secretary, one of his Russian...
...Nicholas Nich of China. Nich received his undergraduate training at Earlham College, Richmond, Indians, and intends to study international relations at Harvard...
Last fortnight Adolf Hitler stung Austria's Chancellor Engelbert ("Millimetter-nich"*) Dollfuss with a 1,000-mark visa charge for Germans entering Austria. Smarting, Dollfuss considered slapping back with a tariff wall against German goods that would have hurt both Germany and Austria. Instead, giving gentle tit for brutal tat, he restored the five-schilling visa charge for Austrians going to Ger- many, forbade any to do so except for urgent business reasons. Then he turned back to the serious business of fighting the Nazi pox within Austria...
...Princetin team has played up to its usual standard in their practices held since last Saturday's victory, defeating the Seventh Regiment team in two twenty-minute scrimmages Monday, and, on Thursday evening, after defeating a substitute team 7 to 1, playing a tie game with the "St. Nich's." The showing made by the University team in this week's practice is, however, equally encouraging. After a day of ragged practice and a defeat at the hands of the Freshmen, the team, despite the loss of the strongest men, has turned the blind energy that followed defeat, into fast...