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...Basic Pay Day amount, required of every 'Clifieldweller, is $5.75--$2.00 for Student Government, $2.00 for class dues, and $1.75 for a compulsory subscription to the Radcliffe News. Actually, the average student contribution to organizational coffers is something over $6.50, since 15 clubs and 'Idler' levy additional taxes on their memberships...
France consumes 7,000,000 tons of wheat each year, usually grows 6,700,000 tons of it herself. This year drought cut the French yield to 3,300,000 tons. Without dollars to buy wheat abroad, Frenchmen will have little bread, their basic food. The bread ration has already been cut to 200 grams a day (75 grams lower than the lowest ration during the German occupation). Probable November level: 150 grams (less than four average U.S. slices) daily...
...firing is indoors from the 50-foot line, which may seem paltry to the former G.I. used to 100 through 500 yard ranges in basic training. Beverly noted, however, that a .22 in the hands of an expert riflemen is just as accurate up to 100 yards as is the .30 calibre Garand...
Kopp believes that this daily practice is indispensable if his boys are to master football fundamentals. He believes that football games are won or lost on the team's command of the basic facts of football life. "After all," he says, "by the time any two teams play each other, they both have pretty good ideas of what the other can do. But if one team has a superior knowledge of fundamentals and the necessary quickness, it will...
...prospects for avoiding continued and increasing inflation and an eventual crash are not good. The present Congress has exhibited a shocking lack of knowledge of the basic needs of our own economy. Its actions in removing almost all economic controls, its drive to waken the trade unions, its failure to use the report of the President's Economic Advisory Council as a basis for constructive action are evidence of a philosophy that should have disappeared from Washington when Hoover left the White House in 1933. But that philosophy has returned, and so has Hoover...