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...Naval Barracks, Chatham, Kent, one evening last week. Proud members of an unofficial outfit sponsored by officers of the Royal Marine Forces, the youngsters were on their way to watch a boxing tournament in the camp of their Royal Navy counterparts. Marching crisply, they swung in a column three abreast along the narrow (27 ft.) tunnel of Dock Road...
...blame for such ignorance, said Gallup, can be leveled chiefly at the people themselves. They "have become so bent on entertainment that anything which doesn't fit easily and unconsciously into this groove tends to be ignored. The old-fashioned idea that everyone should keep 'abreast of the times' apparently has lost much of its earlier appeal." But Gallup raised a pertinent question for the press. Have editors "lost a sense of mission" and begun to worry too much, he asked, "about having the most popular comic strips and the most complete sports pages, and too little...
...Korea as well as with Japan's meteoric rise & fall. Included in the welter of history are such memorable vignettes as the chaos of Pearl Harbor, the raising of the U.S. flag on the summit of Iwo Jima, the cloud of smoke & fire above Hiroshima. To keep abreast of the news, MOT will not shoot until the last minute some of the footage for the last of the 26 installments...
Price, a 56-year-old Pittsburgh lawyer-turned-banker-turned-industrialist, might well be called "Mr. Expansion." He has constantly proclaimed that U.S. industry needs tremendous growth to keep abreast of rising population, bigger incomes and greater consumer wants. He envisions "an economy whose horizons will be almost as far beyond those of the present as today's are beyond those of our boyhood...
...election grows hotter, the CRIMSON will keep its readers abreast of political developments around Cambridge...