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...policy of submerging every substantive intra-NATO disagreement under the blanker title of Challenges to American Leadership has reached a new peak of boorishness this month. Thus, writing under a Times Syndicate by line in the local Herald, Mr. Rusk's press secretary, Mr. Reston, pronounced-ex cathedra, as it were- this threat...
...plan centered on individual qualification. Yesterday's proposals were purposely vague; the Committee is given sweeping power to map out details. The first years will necessarily be marked by the slow progress of trial and error. But consideration of the individual should never give way to a set of blanker criteria for advanced placement or course reduction. In every case, final decisions should be made on a personal basis, not on test scores...
...wasn't prepared for the clear white space which greeted her eyes when she turned the communication over. First throught was Irvin H. Blank, research fellow in Dermatology. Or maybe Carlos A. Blanco '49, or Dorothy J. Blanker at the School of Education, or Euan T. Blanch 1M. Finally she sent it to the Lampoon, one-time University funny magazine. "They've been drawing blanks for years," she said...
...accused of high treason, condemned to death in absentia. Knowing there was little hope from this Nazi court, Communist Dimitroff blustered and roared his way through the trial while timorous, law-abiding Germans hung open-mouthed on his words. Nothing seemed to annoy bullet-headed Presiding Judge Blanker like the defend ant's persistent snapping of the word selbstvcrstdndlich ("self-evident") to questions whether or not he was a Communist, had been exiled from Bulgaria, believed in the proletarian revolution, had traveled under forged passports...
...essay on Dante by F. V. Blanker, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, won the prize offered by the Dante Society, and M. H. Thiessen '24, of Cleveland, Ohio, received the Susan Anthony Potter prize for his thesis in the field of comparative literature. Two other essays received prizes, that of J. A. Cohen '24, of Fall River, the Bennett prize in political science, and that of B. McK. Henry '24, of Rosemont, Pa., the Winthrop Sargent prize for the best essay relating to Shakespeare or his work...