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...length, legalistic posters placed in conspicuous places on University property, the sheriff and Aldrich Durant, business manager, stated that the Corporation claimed sole ownership of its property and would resist any claims that the public had obtained an "easement" on the property because of common use of Harvard's paths and driveways...
...notice that they were moving in. It was not clear whether the Dong Dang garrison had heard about that afternoon's agreement, but in any case the agreement specified that Japanese troops should enter by the port of Haiphong, not by the China border. The French decided to resist. In a two-hour skirmish the French suffered about 100 casualties...
Nelson Gidding's "Act With The Stars" and John Bonner's "The Boy-Girl Relationship" attract because they have a charm and lack of pretension that is missing from some of the other stories. Most of Mother Advocate's sons know better, but some of them seem unable to resist looking back over their shoulder at the devil of pseudo-sophistication. Two of the other three short stories, by William Abrahams and Martin Collins Johnson, slip at different moments into this fault. The third, Edward Pols' "Porphyro and the Beadsman," is a tedious attempt at a difficult mental portrait which...
...outpost of Hong Kong. This harbor, which has the unmatchable beauty of an intimate Rio de Janeiro, was to be the base of Britain's preliminary delaying action. Now, it is almost completely surrounded by Japanese land and naval positions. The British last summer revised their plans to resist there. Most of their revised plans at Hong Kong called for resistance only to inflict as much damage and save as much face as possible...
Sheltering Arms. Reluctance to accept psychological counsel in hiring workers is not confined to employers, said Psychologist Morris S. Viteles of the University of Pennsylvania. "Labor leaders resist likewise, because they stand for the group protection of its inferior members, which is the tradition of organized labor throughout the world, except perhaps in the Soviet Union. There, under the direction of a so-called proletarian dictatorship, inefficiency is made synonymous with political crime and the trade unions have learned to withdraw from their inferior members the protection still accorded to them by labor unions in capitalistic countries...