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...public knows, no one has yet landed on any of the ice islands. Even their ownership is not settled. The U.S. maintains that land (even floating "land," presumably) belongs to the nation that discovers and occupies it first. But for polar regions the U.S.S.R. supports the "sector principle": that everything north of its territory is its property. At least one of the ice islands lies well beyond the pole in the Soviet-claimed "sector...
...first quarter turning to complete passes to the left. So many of these were broken up by Crimson halfback Lon Tsavaris that Cronis tried tossing the ball to his right, and found a defensive weakness. Three long touchdown passes, two to left and Bob Schalk, connected in this sector and the junior varsity went down to its fourth straight defeat...
Another Western device for exposing Communist tyranny was brilliantly successful last week. The West Berlin Publishers' Association erected on the Potsdamer-Platz a crude copy of the N.Y. Times electric news sign. The sign was in the British sector but it faced the Russian sector. Hundreds of East Berliners gathered across the Potsdamer-Platz to read unadulterated news. Enraged Communists turned fire hoses on the sign, then tried vainly to blot it out with strong searchlights. East Berliners went right on looking at the news. Sample bulletin: "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer labels Soviet-zone elections a fraud...
Professor Black, viewing the agricultural sector of the economy, said selective price controls might soon be needed on such currently high-demand items as wool and beef. "But until things are much clearer," be said, "we should continue to encourage dairy production and not rush to convert our feed reserves into meat." We may also need more farm machinery, he added, because the demand for labor will probably draw workers from the farms to the factories...
...caution and good sense of the commander of the point company, Captain Robert Barrow of St. Francisville, La. Barrow took his men across the Seoul-Mukden railroad tracks, deployed them on a ridge and refused to advance past an apparently deserted group of buildings and a residential sector until he had scouted the ground...