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Giant China is squeezed in a double Communist encirclement-from without and from within. Inside the country, Chinese Communists push for power. From without, unremitting pressure is applied to the frontier provinces. Last week, this pressure was squeezing hard on a huge, little-known segment of China-mineral-and oil-rich Sinkiang Province...
Although this latter institution-Sargent College, along with the various graduate schools, does not qualify under the eligibility rules, theis still leaves a healthy segment of local manhod to choose a team from, as one of B.U.'s proudest boasts, published in Football Facts, is that its enrollment "includes more Congregationalists than are to be found in Amherst and Dartmouth Colleges, both of them established by the Congregationalists: more Baptists than in the Baptist Colleges . . . Bates and Colby: more Episcopalians than in Trinity: more Methodists than in the Methodist colleges of Wesleyan, Connecticut, and Wesleyan, Georgia, combined: more Unitarians than...
...Deal, he thought, had lined up on organized labor's side and had become an out-&-out partisan of a single segment of U.S. society. The Norris-LaGuardia Act had put labor pretty well beyond the reach of legal injunctions. The National Labor Relations Act insured labor the right to organize. The NLRA in itself was not pernicious. But various interpretations of it plunged boards and courts into a swamp of contradictions. Both acts disarmed management, a fact which labor leaders were able to exploit to the full...
...wages in the past six months. But industry, which prefers to take the long view, pointed out that since 1939 the cost of living has risen 54%, while dollar earnings have risen 93%-a 25% rise in real wages. To people on more or less fixed incomes-a large segment of U.S. society not in organized labor's camp-this point was important, not to say poignant...
...compromise. It is a compromise between the much-abused and never ratified constitution under which the Council worked for a decade, and the document plumping for "more democracy" offered by the summer "revision" committee, which did its work in the double heat of the August sun and an inflamed segment of the student body. In totality, the proposed constitution leans far and healthy towards the latter pole...