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...hold meetings; speakers and speeches must be approved by the Russians. The interminable list of SED rallies indicates that the party has little trouble obtaining permits. Other parties, as one discouraged CDU leader put it, "run into endless chicanery." He added: "It has developed into quite a set pattern. We plan a meeting and tentatively reserve a hall. We submit application for the meeting, but days and sometimes weeks elapse. By the time we receive the approval our hall has been taken by somebody else-for instance, the Red Army requisitions it for showing a movie...
...G.I.s were precedent followers rather than setters. Quite gloriously (not ominously at all) the pattern was cut for them in '76. In this country, tyranny has found it tough going from way back...
While there can be little argument with subsidized research, it is obvious that further endowment on the 1945-46 pattern will only give credence to the "research-laboratory" label that is tacked to the name Harvard too frequently. At best, this situation is endowments can cause a tremendously lopsided University, with faculty and student talent naturally funnelling off either into other colleges where their specialties are not given orphan-child treatment. At its worst, a hit-and-miss endowment policy can neglect faculty salaries (which, at certain levels, Harvard can scarcely neglect much longer) and other immediate needs until...
Colonist Barr thinks the time is ripe for a new school, both because of the "shocking" shortage and because "I'm getting old." (He is 49.) Will there be still more Barr-built colleges on the St. John's pattern? "I'd like to think this is not the last. But somebody else will have to start the next...
Volume Up, Profits Up. Other reports did not necessarily follow this pattern. Due to increased sales, most food, textile, drug, paper, building-material and moving-picture companies had higher sales and higher profits than last year...