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...Nazis coming back? Last week, commenting on West Germany's local elections, some foreign newsmen seemed to think they are. New York Timesman Drew Middleton, who has been making predictions of a Nazi revival for years, reported the specter of German fascism overhanging every ballot box. Bonn protested "splash headlines" and "one-sided reporting" by foreign correspondents. Conditions in Germany, said Konrad Adenauer's press chief, are "extraordinarily stable"; the election proved that both left and right extremists are "steadily sinking in numbers...
...trust that the specter of junior proms, Big Men on Campus fraternities and all the rest that must inevitably follow if the trend is maintained, will be sufficient to raise opposition to the twin pronged threat that confronts the College. Otherwise there may soon be no men left who remember when the words. "All College Weekend" invoked only puzzled amusement and for whom water pistols were simply a Kirkland House Aberration...
...Last week a federal court in Cleveland gave them their answer: an injunction barring a strike. Cried James P. Shields, Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers: "In the light of the Cleveland decision, and the seizure of the steel industry, this nation is faced with the specter of continuing and expanding involuntary servitude unless present seizure tactics are wiped out on constitutional grounds...
David Kenneth Specter, of Brooklyn and Dunster House. Studying to be an architect, Specter is a member of the Band and the Outing Club, and was art editor of the 1951 Year Book...
Lancashire Is Alarmed. First on the House agenda was the alarming and growing slump in Britain's textile industry (see below). In the soot-stained towns of Lancashire, cotton mills by the score had shut down their looms. Said Labor M.P. Harry Hynd: "The people see the specter ... of the dole queues forming again, and the return of the soup kitchens and pawnshops...