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Freshmen can still appeal to the President of the University, as two freshmen with poor heating can testify. Two Yardlings wrote a letter to President Pusey to protest the "chronic lack of heat" in South Weld, and by the next day, the Buildings and Grounds Department had installed new heating facilities in the dormitory...
...backer who edged out Taftman Owen Brewster in the 1952 primaries and is now Maine's junior Senator. The tidings: hardworking, quietly effective Frederick Payne will not seek re-election in 1958. Among the reasons for the change in Payne: his health (he has a chronic but not disabling heart disorder), his family (Mrs. Payne doesn't like Washington), his pocketbook (he'd like to get back to private business). The Senator, an aide explained, announced his plans so early to give the party ''plenty of time to fill the seat with the right...
...Newsreels. After decades of benevolent but bumbling overgovernment, Uruguay is troubled with chronic inflation, swelling government debt, softening currency, and a tendency to break out in strikes as workers restively try to keep up with the cost of living. As a result, Communism has made some surface gains. About 100,000 Montevideo workers belong to unions that are dominated or influenced by Reds. Keeping up a strenuous cultural-penetration drive, the Soviet Union donates film shorts to the government, free newsreels to movie houses. Red propaganda has convinced an apparent majority of Montevideans that increased trade with the Communist bloc...
...crowd, and after softening them up with a funny story and a few wisecracks would harangue the crowd with spellbinding oratory that so magnified every itch, twitch and minor pain inherent in every human being that half his listeners thought they had incipient cancer, tuberculosis or at least a chronic ulcer. Stevenson's speeches are filled with the same wisecracks, half-truths, distortions and exaggerations designed to scare the susceptible into believing that the Democratic Magic Elixir is their only hope...
...mother insane. We had no way of living. My brother, who had also worked for the U.B. was discharged because of my father, so he committed suicide. Until my father was freed under the amnesty in 1954 we had no word from him. I was sick. I had chronic skin disease when my father was arrested. My mother could not do anything for herself, and I have two young sisters who could not work. So I had to look for a job. But I could not get work anywhere because I was ill. The Communist Party turned against...