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Retaliations and counter-retaliations, like the pendulum of some deadly clock, last week were gradually swinging Brazil and the Axis toward...
Citizens of New Orleans hugged the ground last week as the pendulum of machine government in Louisiana whooshed back over their necks. In a mayoralty election, Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, surviving veteran of Huey Long's praetorian guard, scored a comfortable victory over disunited Reform forces, settled back for another four years of power...
...half dozen years ago the pendulum swung toward a less rigid system of distributional requirements. So long as a student took at least six courses outside of his field, it didn't matter what he chose in the way of subjects. No one had to take a science or a philosophy course if he didn't want to. While a good many students did vary their courses, a large segment stuck to their own particular type of study and method of approach, avoiding any other like a plague...
Last week the swing of six years ago was arrested and a Faculty vote sent the pendulum on its way back to the position which it occupied during the Lowell era. Mathematics and Philosophy have been divided and reclassified; so that now there are only three groups. The groups have been rechristened "areas," but essentially the new rules of distribution are the same as those of ten years ago. The interpretations of what constitutes science are, perhaps, more lenient, but on the other hand the requirements are more complicated. An alert set of Freshman advisers and tutors will be needed...
General Manuel Avila Camacho had last week been President for precisely six weeks, but he had already set the pendulum of Mexican politics swinging in a new direction. In Mexico's turbulent history since the 1917 revolution the pendulum has swung alternately left and right. Between 1924 and 1927 President Plutarco Elías Calles made Mexico nationalistic, anticlerical, anti-U. S. Then Calles grew conservative and the pendulum swung to the right until another strong-man President, Lázaro Cárdenas, gave it a violent heave to the left. Avila Camacho had not only started...