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...President appoints a fact-finding board to assess the effects of the strike, and the prospects, if any, for solution. If the facts indicate that no solution is in sight, the President orders the Attorney General to go into a U.S. court for a "cease-and-desist" injunction to stop the strike. The Attorney General may seek contempt-of-court action if either side violates the injunction...
Finley stated that he would oppose any effort to assess student opinion on the crowding-rent problem. He stated that undergraduates "lack the experience to know anything about money." Other Masters and Deans, however, questioned the advisability of complete deconversion without first determining how far students will tolerate crowding as long as it keeps down room rents...
Adams & the Dragon. Before his death, Wolfe found time to assess the Americans who fought with the British army. They were, he said, "the dirtiest, most contemptible, cowardly dogs that you can conceive." Less than two decades later, the Americans were to prove that estimate badly mistaken. Author Tourtellot's chronicle of Lexington shows that the British, to begin with, were reluctant dragons. Their general back in Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace...
...able to sum up, analyze and assess the news, TIME'S writers and editors need a superior brand of energetic reporting from their correspondents. Some examples of reporters at work for stories in this week's TIME...
...Findlay Galleries played host last week to the warm, simple and true pictures of the world's most distinguished woman painter, Dame Laura Knight. To a few, the pictures' heartfelt realism had that musty look of the faraway and long ago; visitors were hard put to assess them by contemporary-and so often geometric -standards. One critic noted that Dame Laura painted like a man. Said she in London when she heard of it, "What man?" Another called her a "popular painter," which roused her British ire the more: "Don't call me popular. I paint what...