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...does it allow part-time "jobs". But there is nothing short of a Commissar who can stop interested alumni from assuring Glutz, the promising blocking-back, that coffee, cakes and liniment will be no problem at the U. The Pacific Coast Conference, under minor Czar Warren Atherton, has a stringent rule forbidding even such Alumni dalliance with high-school seniors. While the spirit of the coast authorities is willing, the flesh is relatvely weak; enforcement of this laudable stand lacks the same enthusiasm evinced by high-power alumni...
...tastes are always governed by esthetic standards stringent...
...severest obstacles to foreigners who want to subscribe to American magazines is the international currency situation. Fluctuations in exchange make it difficult to set a permanent subscription price. Stringent currency regulations often make it impossible for subscribers to get dollars with which to pay for their subscriptions. In a few other cases government censorship is the stumbling block...
Battle of Giants. Early this month, when UNRRA declared that it could not continue feeding Austria unless help was forthcoming from the occupation armies, Clark declared in the Allied Control Council that all U.S. surplus stores (which had accumulated under his stringent conservation orders) were available for the purpose. With an eye on the Austrian Food Minister, who was present at the session, he declared: "I had hoped my Soviet colleagues would want to participate in alleviating the suffering of the Austrian people, but as they won't, the U.S. will do it alone." After hurried consultation, the Russians...
...fingernails,-or lit dialectical firecrackers under the earnest Left. At his nicest, he has tilted at sesquipedalian government reports (his parody: "It has been aquating hard. I am now going to dehydrate my socks"). At his sanest, he helped win the first marked mitigation of Britain's stringent divorce laws since...