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Richard S. Rosenbloom '54, director of the Doctoral Program said last week, in an apparent turnabout, that he would propose a motion asking for the readmission of Schorsch...
...screamed a National Enquirer front-page headline in 1962. I CUT OUT HER HEART AND STOMPED ON IT W35 another terrifying teaser in the weekly tabloid's gory old days. The paper's new day is something else. In a total turnabout, the Enquirer has banished cannibalism, sadism and sick sex in favor of a blend of upbeat success stories, gossip by and about celebrities, plus an overdose of the occult and the quasiscientific. The switch to a kind of respectability has had spectacular results. Circulation, stalled at about 1,000,000 at the height of the Enquirer...
Traditionally supporters of freer trade, many of labor's most liberal leaders have made a startling turnabout and put their powerful clout behind openly protectionist legislation in Congress. The recent converts include the electrical workers, the rubber workers and the machinists. Their feelings were vented at length and with loudness at last week's AFL-CIO convention. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers passed out pamphlets showing a man wearing imported clothes and headlined: HOW TO DRESS FOR A DEPRESSION. Banners strung up at Bal Harbour's Hotel Americana urged union members...
Exeter did control play through the first few minutes. But the turnabout came quickly as the ball was cleared from Harvard's goal area to halfback Frank Gerold. Gerold gave a through pass to Vinnie Vanderpool-Wallace, the left wing, who deftly faked Exeter's goalie for the score...
...unexpected turnabout, the Treasury Department reports that savings bonds are selling better than they have since 1945. This year's sales seem sure to top $5.5 billion, well over the $4.8 billion projected last January and the $4.7 billion sold last year...