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...Autumn Sport...
...important difficulty would remain under a year-round setup: whether to begin actual admission as well as consideration in the autumn. Under the Yale program, students' school advisers were told how the applicants ranked--tentatively accepted, undecided, or rejected, and the student could, accordingly, apply elsewhere. A more sensible solution, it seems, would be to take the pressure off the applicant as soon as possible by immediately admitting acceptable students. To do this, however, would require a uniform reply date among colleges. An applicant to Princeton, for example, otherwise might not accept admission there before hearing from Harvard or Yale...
JOSEPH C. HARSCH, Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor: The issue least mentioned on the American hustings this autumn is the one uppermost in the thoughts of the practical professional politicians of both parties. On Nov. 2 the voters of the United States, largely without being aware of it, will decide whether the enormous investigating enthusiasm of their federal legislators will be turned against Democrats or against Republicans over the next two years. The object over the past two years has been to manufacture Republican ammunition for this campaign out of the record of the Roosevelt-Truman...
...Premiers took a break to stroll around the pond in the autumn dusk. Then Mendès broached the question on which the week's success (and German sovereignty) depended. The French Assembly would not tolerate any economic isolation of the Saar from France, Mendès said bluntly, or agree to its political union with Germany. It must remain "European-ized," even if there was no longer any European community to which to attach it. Adenauer was reluctant to renounce all claim to the Saar as German territory. Mendès conceded that any agreement reached would...
Wandering through the chill autumn woods outside Stockholm, a casual American tourist might have stumbled across the 20 goose-pimpled Swedes and Finns and mistaken them for a bunch of overage Boy Scouts minus their marbles. Shivering in skimpy costumes-cotton shorts and shirts and gym shoes-they looked like summer hikers, some two months late, waiting for a tardy scoutmaster to take them home...