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Bolstered by the return of seven pre-war stars, the thin Crimson track squad will attempt to regain part of its pristine track glory tomorrow, as it enters an almost all-civilian team in the Boston A.A. games tomorrow, besides placing three men in the New England A.A.U. games tomorrow afternoon at Tech...
Middle Ground. To the postwar facts of life, U.S. labor leaders reacted in various ways. Cautious Bill Green preferred to fight the battle vicariously. John Lewis, whose best chance to regain his old place as No. 1 man is for somebody else to make a mistake, chose the waiting game. Walter Reuther, labor's high priest of economics and ideology, stepped out in front with a bold attempt to turn a simple argument over rates into a complicated economic crusade...
...speeding-up of reconversion, which will also allow Government controls to be cut as production increases. Britain needs this not only to restore her own war-battered land but to regain her overseas markets. To get even moderate prosperity, she must lift her exports 75% above 1938. On V-J day they stood at only...
...hard for many of them to believe that they can probably regain independence, of a sort. But Boston's Surgeon Donald Munro, who has seen it happen, is sure that they can. Says he: "If he is properly treated, every patient with a spinal cord injury who is intelligent and cooperative and has the use of the shoulder, arm and hand muscles can be made ambulatory . . . lead a normal social life and . . . earn a satisfactory living...
Like the Dutch in Indonesia (see above), the French were finding it far from easy to regain their grip on Indo-China. Here too the U.S. played an indirect somewhat reluctant role: the French were using Lend-Lease equipment against the natives...