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Stalin's Problem. Soviet Russia has two objectives in the Balkans. One is to protect herself from German invasion. If she could advance her frontier from the Pruth to the summit of the Carpathians she could deprive Germany of one jumping-off place into the Ukraine. Since the danger would remain of this line being outflanked by a German advance southeastward from Poland, the risk of war with Germany in order to seize the Carpathians is probably not worth it in Joseph Stalin's calculating mind...
Almost every other institution of fair New England preens itself on its Outing Club. Better spring safety-valves than stuffy libraries, enrollment lists are long. Dartmouth has lovingly adopted an entire mountain. Trails have been blazed, and a hut reared on the summit, whence pilgrimages are made all year around. Radcliffe, rending urban shackles asunder, has set up a thriving Outing Club, which, the misguided Harvard man seeking entertainment elsewhere, is forced to go picnicking with Yale, Williams, and other remote colleges...
...Alston Blackwell '40, Babcock's roommate, said yesterday that the missing student had sent a telegram to an aunt in Summit, N. J., with the brief message, "Am in army until end of war." The message was sent from Fort de France, Martinique. Presumably Babcock had made his way there in order to enlist under French colors and obtain passage to France...
...lonely outposts at Effingham, Ill. and Sexton Summit, Ore., in the busy, bright-lighted teletype room at Newark Airport, in hundreds of other stations along the Civil Aeronautics Authority's 30,000-mile wire circuit, the machines broke off their cabalistic sequence of weather symbols one morning last week...
...took us another half an hour to cover that last two miles before we came to a great wood-covered hill roughly shaped like a loaf of bread. We zigzagged our way up the side through barbed-wire entanglements, passages and trenches to the summit...