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...Bold" strip teasers and female impersonators were banned as well in a Friday dictum but so far no axe seems to have fallen on the Old Howard, a favorite student haunt...
...prosperous Republican farm towns of Goodells and Bad Axe, farmers turned out in their Sunday best to hear the report explained, and as soon as it was over, began biting the hand that subsidizes them, with heated protests against "Socialism" and Government "interference." No one protested against interference in the form of price supports. It was outright subsidies for soil improvement-and the thought of the taxes they come from-that irked the solid farmers in Michigan's bean-growing district...
...signs, the people axe fed up with the Socialists, and by all signs, the Socialists are fed up with governing. Only tenacity and pride keep them in office. Their revolution is over and so is the thrill of adventure that went with it. In February the Labor government nationalized steel, but it was a halfhearted gesture, made without conviction. In the final debates, steel nationalization was not argued as a good or necessary step but defended as a perseverance in dogma. One Socialist minister, as doctrinaire as they come, conceded over a plate of venison that all the other nationalization...
Before the axe is applied to a major branch, not to mention a whole tree, the operation has to be cleared with Vice-President Reynolds' office and the department near which the tree stands. Thus the cutting of trees by the river is always cleared with the appropriate Housemaster...
...snakes, sand, rain, mud and Okies, I languish, forgotten and ignored. Quite seriously, though, the New Army is no better than any other previous one. My considered advice to everyone who has not come under the arm-garters of our communal Uncle Sam is to raise hell until the axe falls. It is not a funny axe, nor is it a funny Army...