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...Sunday, University of California officials announced that they were going to require all faculty members to sign loyalty oaths. This institution has been under pressure for some time by one of Martin Dies' local chapters--the California state senate's committee on subversive activities. This group has a much sterner loyalty oath bill for teachers pending in the state legislature already. It is quite probable that the university's action was an attempt to forestall this bill...
...postwar Germany, where no planes are being built (because the occupation powers forbid it), Willy Messerschmitt, after a denazification court fined him $200 and let him go, might have become a pathetic relic of the war. He was made of sterner stuff. Wherever he looked, the crying need was for more houses. Whole sections of Diisseldorf, Cologne and Nurnberg lay in rubble, and every day more refugees from the East poured in to swamp West Germany's already jam-packed buildings. Frankfurt alone this year hopes to put up 100,000 dwelling units. Quietly Willy Messerschmitt went to work...
Unlike the Callao rising, which Bustamante had blamed on the leftist APRA party, the Arequipa revolt was led by a professional soldier and outspoken rightist, 51-year-old General Manuel Odria. He started it off by denouncing the government for not taking sterner measures against APRA (it had been outlawed, many of its leaders jailed). Then he called on the military to follow...
Some political parties might consider a crashing defeat at the polls a good excuse for taking a back seat for a while. Finland's Communists, made of sterner stuff -and with sterner bosses-were more than willing to deny themselves that luxury. It would be downright unpatriotic, suggested Communist Minister Hertta Kuusinen-Leino last week, to let anti-Communists run the country just because they had won the election (TIME, July 12). "We would do better outside the government as opposition," the lady minister confessed, "but we put the country's interests first and therefore insist on taking...
...still virtually home less, occupying a single room in the Lyceum building and publishing, according to a former editor, "in a happy-go-lucky fashion where at least at much time was devoted to punches and jolly fellowship as to work." But by the end of the eighties a sterner spirit had overtaken the board, and the social and alcoholic functions were abandoned in favor of more serous and better organized journalistic effort...