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Communist forces have grabbed more than a dozen outposts from the U.N. since truce talks resumed in earnest five weeks ago. When U.S. troops were attacked they defended their positions well, but eventually withdrew, and launched few counterattacks. One U.S. commander explained why. Said he: "How would I ever explain it if I lost 50 men trying to take back an outpost the day the armistice was signed...
Almost before any real pressure developed, Tennessee officials withdrew the Chaplain and Nesky films and substituted others...
After the season a tremendous controversy started over de-emphasis. The Debate Council scheduled a giant meeting where Captain Cheek was to attack football emphasis. But when the debate was opened to include outsiders--Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post and Frank "Iron Man" Cavanaugh, Boston College coach--Cheek withdrew. The CRIMSON ran an editorial calling for deemphasis, and at the debate Cavanaugh bitterly attacked the Crimeds, adding that anyone at Dartmouth who suggested that football was overemphasized would be shot at dawn. Cunningham added that "strangely enough, you seldom hear the attack launched by football men. The rabid reformers...
First, the Mau Mau overran a Somali outpost on the estate. They cut off the head of a Somali cattle herdsman, presumably to terrorize the Somali tribesmen who are trickling south to help the British against the Mau Mau. As the raiders withdrew, they were closely harassed by a patrol of the regular Negro King's African Rifles. When the gunsmoke cleared, three Mau Mau lay dead. One of them, in a stolen, red-tabbed British colonel's uniform, was Simba, the Lion...
...evenings and on weekends, promising them more pay, better bunks, shorter hours. An anti-Communist C.I.O. union tried to stem the Mine-Mill drive. Mine-Mill "put the case in terms of pork chops," said a government labor official. "The [other fellows] talked vaguely." Before long, the anti-Communists withdrew...