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...lambasted the chaos in the nation's foreign policy agreed on one thing last week: a Big Three meeting might help. But the suspicion persisted that even more necessary was a basic shift in the Administration's thinking. A "tea for three" meeting now had little meaning so long as the U.S. continued to label all political problems: "Do Not Open Until Peace." The news of Poland and Greece was that Britain and Russia each had specific, immediate, well-planned aims in Europe. It was high time for the U.S. to abandon finger-shaking at what...
...their scramble for points, many of this season's well-tutored fives employ several different types of offense, and make split-second adjustments from one to another as the situation demands. To offset the fluid offenses, coaches have rigged fluid defenses, in which the players shift back & forth from zone defense to man-to-man, with variations. Even the old set plays have acquired delicate subtleties comparable to the different blocking assignments that give a football team half a dozen kinds of off-tackle plays from one basic pattern...
...major U.S. diplomatic shift was in the works. Headed for Spain was astute, aristocratic Norman Armour. Slated for retirement was balding, professorial Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, after a short (30-month) career in Madrid...
...hell," said General Sherman, and college girls of 1944 have taken up his cry. From Oregon to Florida, from Sweet Briar to Bryn Mawr, lonely young American females bewail a shift in the balance of power between college men and women. The men now hold the reins...
...Harvard's peacetime student body, approximately 200 each year were foreigners. A record of 243 in a reduced wartime enrollment of only 1,970 represents a considerable shift in the ratio...