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...legal position, looked at from the same point of view, is equally impregnable. As one sovereign government to another, Greece would ask of the United States money with which to bolster up her ramshackle economy, civilian experts to aid her in reconstructing her war-torn country--and military experts and materiel to beef up her army of over 100,000 men. By so doing, the United States would take up where Britain left off--aiding the present Greek government to root out and destroy the EAM forces in the north and to supply the Greek and Turkish governments with...
...long production saga of the elder Holabird includes a spectacular 1940 production of "the Ascent of F-6," by Auden and Isherwood, in which all the seats in Sanders pit were torn out to provide for the construction of a manmade mountain...
...belt punches at the fraternity system, big dumb football heroes, Big Men On the Campus, Student Council elections, and particularly at the amateur left wing. Wrapped up in these goings-on is Asa Hearthrug a naive but willing freshman, played ably enough by Billy Redfield, who finds himself torn among three variegated bits of campus femininity...
...with a very earnest intent to do something that Joe Ball wrote his labor laws. There were practical objections to some of them. Some industries, notably the garment trade, believed that industry-wide bargaining and the closed shop had brought peace and stability. In the once strife-torn garment industry there has not been an important strike in 14 years. Union leaders and even some employers predicted that Ball's bills would throw some industries into chaos. They referred to Ball as "Mr. Screwball...
...getting the mules through had become an obsession with Daveron. Despite swollen rivers and poor grazing (the bush seemed to grow only spiked trees, barbedwire plant and fishhook vines), Daveron pushed on. Sometimes wild pigs stampeded the troop and then jaguars clawed the strays. Last month, tired, tattered, and torn, Daveron and his mules made the Amazon. Of the original 171, only one mule had been lost-by snakebite. Some of the 170 that pulled through Daveron sold to the territorial government; others (at $250 a head) went to rubber producers...