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Clocks are to be set ahead one hour tonight in celebration of the annual Going - on - Eastern - Daylight - Saving - Time - Day. The appointed hour for the change is 2 a.m. But Radcliffe just to be different, and to save its students probationary embarrassment, will make the shift at 6 a.m. instead...
...separate army, strong nationalism, economic interests possibly conflicting with Russia. The Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, meeting in Peiping last month for the first time in four years, formally decided that the period of agrarian communism-Mao's policy-was over, that emphasis would now shift to the cities and to speedy industrialization. At least on the face of it, Mao was in complete agreement with the new line. If he was turning into a Tito, he gave no evidence...
Baseball games will be on the former jayvee field behind the varsity third base stands, while softballers will use the regular House field. Tennis will be on courts 31 through 35, but the golf teams, with no definite battlefield, will have to shift from country-club to country-club...
...whole list of projects designed to get unification of the services in form, if not in fact. In a matter of months, he announced, he hoped to have the top brass of the three services and 12,000 underlings relocated in new, chummy quarters in the Pentagon, a shift once estimated as a two-to three-year job. He ordered the Air Force's General Joseph T. McNarney to shake down the hundreds of duplicating and overlapping service boards and agencies. Four days later Johnson wiped out nine service boards as unnecessary. He made it plain that he would...
Strategy and hard necessity had dictated the shift. The greater threat to the postwar world lay across the Atlantic, a fact recognized by the North Atlantic pact. Under a peacetime budget, the U.S. could no longer maintain overwhelming defenses in both oceans at once...