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...Talent for Politics. Recently, Pastor Grüber was criticized-this time by his own church synod-because he appeared at an East German "National Congress," publicly condemned the presence of U.S. atomic cannon in Germany, and called for a ban on nuclear weapons, a step the Russians favor. Pastor Grüber asked the synod to accept his resignation...
...Nations to face his triumphant enemies. He was pale, but he spoke with bitter eloquence. "The decisive assault in a gloriously unequal battle, carried on for 55 days, was launched on the very eve of the date set for this Geneva meeting whose prospect alone should normally have silenced cannon," he said. "We have already known sudden massacres on the morrow of peaceful negotiations, and this is not the first time that actions cruelly give the lie to words. It is not our side that wanted a hardening of the fighting-to the extent of refusing evacuation of wounded while...
Essentially the problems which face Bard today are the same as those which faced Cannon Bernard Iddings Bell, the last Warden of St. Stephen's College, and which brought him to work for a union of the college with Columbia. "We believe," he said, "the day of the small college, independent of the university, definitely to be over. Some of the well-endowed and fashionable ones may go on living for years, decades, but they will be fewer and fewer and eventually even the wealthiest of them are likely to disappear...
...FIGHTERS are being -equipped with new 20-mm. cannon that can fire explosive shells faster than the standard (1,200 rounds per min.) .50-cal. machine gun. The new weapon, which fires cartridges by electricity instead of the usual mechanical hammer, was developed by Ford and Illinois Institute of Technology engineers from World War II German plans, is now being mass-produced by General Motors' Pontiac Division...
...John Kenneth Cannon, 62, retired Air Force general, took over as chairman of the board of Fletcher Aviation Corp., one of the largest makers of detachable wing tanks for the Air Force. One of the world's great air tacticians, "Uncle Joe" Cannon put in more time in uniform than any other Air officer (37 years), commanded the Twelfth Air Force during World War II and the U.S. Air Force in Germany during most of the Berlin airlift. He replaces Wendell S. Fletcher, who will continue to serve as corporation president...