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...Switzerland, where the estimated cost of living is $120 a month, including tuition, universities are mainly occupied with giving summer language courses in the quatro-lingual state. The universities of Geneva, Lausanne, and Neuchatel teach in French. The canton schools of St. Gallen, Winterthur, and Chur offer German language courses. In southern Switzerland at Bellinzona, the school gives Italian instruction...
...punishment to the crime. Limited targets in the Korea and Indo-China crises, for example, were selected in the event that retaliation became necessary. "They were specific targets reasonably related to the area. They did not involve massive destruction of great population centers like Shanghai, Peking or Canton. Retaliation must be on a selective basis. The important thing is that the aggressor know in advance that he is going to lose more than he can win. He doesn't have to lose much more. It just has to be something more. If the equation is such that the outcome...
...wife again two weeks ago in Canton, when negotiations started for the Bradshaws' release. "I know she recognized me, because tears came to her eyes," said he. "But it did not really register with her." It will take some time before his wife even realizes that she is free; last week, under treatment in the hospital at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, she was reported to be "periodically aware." Said Missionary Bradshaw: "I have just as much love for the Chinese people as ever, but for the gang that kidnaped us I have nothing but loathing...
Last month, after the Russian fair moved on to a specially built $2,000,000 pavilion in Canton, the Red propagandists decided to go after more skeptical game -the free Chinese in nearby Hong Kong and Macao...
That summer Cy Young pitched 26 full games and finished ten others. A little later the league folded, and Canton's owner got a new suit of clothes for trading Cy to Cleveland, then in the National League...