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Considering both the excellent qualifications of the nomince and the importance of the Supreme Court's works, such procedure is particularly unfortunate. Harlan's nomination has been before the Committee since January 10, and observers predict it will probably stay there for another two weeks. At these hearings the judge has heard himself opposed because of his "in experience," because he favors the United Nations and "may supply the judge necessary to abolish the United States by judicial decision," and because he was a Rhodes Scholar...
Neither Langer nor Wahl were willing to predict how long the new government would survive. They felt that the life of the cabinet will depend on a number of as yet undetermined factors. In 1952 Faure managed to hold a government together for only six weeks...
...Some people's appetites crave an All-College Congress of Joy," Kimball continued. "I am sympathetic, but unmoved. When they have lived with their urge longer, they may be able to predict its arrival earlier, and not tend to conflict with more orderly procedures, like operas. Enthusiasm must be curbed" he said...
Charlie no doubt wonders how all this is going to turn out. Little does he know that in the next issue the Allies will land in the south of France to launch a pincer movement against the retreating Germans . . . My advice to Charlie is to take heart. I predict that by the end of the month we'll be in complete control of Paris, Marseille will capitulate. Bulgaria will petition for an armistice, and Rumania will surrender and switch to the Allied side. As Verdun. Saint-Mihiel and Dieppe fall, the Russians will take over the entire Ploesti oilfields...
...report maintains that grades "were in inverse relation to economic advantage" when the intelligence was equal. It also notes that the University uses different rating formulas to predict the freshman grades of the two groups...