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...institution would stir up trouble. At first, however, there was none. In 1945, at Provost Buck's request, Irving W. Bailey, Professor of Plant Anatomy, produced a report on Botany and its Applications at Harvard reviewing the University's sprawling resources in the field. At that time work was split up between nine institutions, one as distant as Cuba and all going their separate ways. Harvard, as Professor Bailey put it, "has acquired too many nests to brood over, and certain of the eggs are beginning to decompose rather than hatch...
...question of "peaceful coexistence" is a decisive factor even for that internal stability. For a year the Communist trade-union leaders of the CGT have been carefully avoiding any social agitation, since that might split the united front between the Communists and the far right against the European Defense Community. Now that the immediate goal of this strange alliance has been achieved, Mendès-France's still-undefined foreign policies will determine whether he will continue to be "tolerated" by the Communists...
...Split Hairs. The West Germans had long ago made up their minds: last year they repulsed the same Soviet offer of "unity" by overwhelmingly re-electing Konrad Adenauer. And last week they did it again when the Bundestag emphatically endorsed the London agreement...
...Western allies could have counted it one of the most salutary in a long time. But it did not. The French could not yet bring themselves to the moment of decision. In the National Assembly, French politicians not only sought out hairs in the London agreement, but avidly split them...
Pure T. Len's choice of Purdue was a deliberate move on the part of a dedicated football player. Ardent alumni from other universities wooed him, and finally the choice narrowed down to Ohio State and Purdue. "I decided against Ohio State," says Dawson, "because they had the split-T working, and I wasn't anxious to get involved in that...