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...that if Russia would not agree to a peace treaty, the U.S. and Britain would go ahead with the political as well as the economic organization of their Bizonal area. They would probably not make a separate peace with Germany; but they would make a Germany. Since the western segment of that country is far stronger than the eastern, the U.S. and Britain could expect the almost unanimous German feeling for national unity to pull eastern Germany toward the West as a sun pulls a smaller planet...
Early in the evening a crimson-clad baud flooded a segment of New Haven with flyers emblazoned with President Conant's picture and advocating "Bryant Wintergreen for President." Few people could guess immediately whether this prauk originated in Cambridge or at Yale, so the total offset was not startling...
...Gummere and Company weigh in the balance each spring the legions of high school presidents, football captains, and geniuses, they rely chiefly on the results of the College Board Achievement Tests. But along with the democratization and the testing remains an unbending remnant of past glories, a significant segment which finds the path of admission strewn with the roses of one of about twenty New England schools. The last class admitted to the College under normal peacetime standards--1945--found itself when it arrived in the fall of 1941 with the usual 50-50 ratio of public and private school...
...collected unprecedented powers, but which could not collect its wits for leadership. The tempo of life and work has quickened. Factory managers reported that their employees were "really getting down to it." Even the Tory party, which since its crushing defeat of 1945 had been the most torpid segment of the British scene, suddenly came sufficiently alive to win an election. Just 24 hours before the votes were counted, a TIME correspondent in London had reported: "The Tories are less certain of not winning...
Patrick D. Dailey '50, who attended the meeting for the Student Council, stated he was definitely "in sympathy with an investigation if even a very small segment of the student body thinks it necessary." He too voiced the desire for a "dispassionate" survey...