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...solution of actual problems. Choosing the latter will spell a busy and worthwhile career. By fostering a progressive attitude on separate college campuses SDA can well play a determining role in the forthcoming National Student Organization. More important, the country's policy-makers of a decade hence will clasp fondly to their bosom hopeful men who know how people behave on the floor of a meeting and who know as well the facts of twentieth century society...
...outstretched hands of Christendom's churches are still a long way from meeting in a solid clasp of friendship. But nowhere in Europe do so many fingers touch each other as at the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Institute. Founded last year (TIME, May 20) as part of a $6,000,000 program to reconstruct European religious life, the Institute is financed largely by U.S. church members.* It has already been in operation for six months, has sent 73 men & women back to their homelands with broader Christian perspectives and more international Christian ties...
...Bingham, through your enterprise, Harvard and Brooklyn can clasp hands across a sea of upturned faces. From Williamsburg to Red Hook, from Canarsie to the Gowanus, the eyes of Brooklyn are upon you. You cannot fall them. You must not fail us. The Editors
...Russia) had left Hungary little wine, little wheat and certainly no peace. Last week, as it celebrated its first anniversary, the new Hungarian Republic was in the iron clasp of Russian economic control, and further squeezed by Russia's campaign to achieve political control as well. In charge of the campaign was a short, little-known secret police career man named Boris Osakin, who bore the inconspicuous title of Deputy to the Soviet Ambassador. From his desk at the Soviet Embassy in Budapest, half a dozen direct wires connect him with the leaders of Hungary's Communist Party...
...municipal government, noted for its frequent banquets, promptly took the cue. It called a meeting of the local New Life Movement, adopted the slogan "Early to bed, early to rise," pledged tea parties instead of feasts, with no serving of wine or "offering of cigarets." For officials who clasp austerity to their bosoms, the Movement proposed a medal of honor and laudatory notice in the public prints...