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...ordinary Russian, however, the new price system has a bright counterpart. Wages were to remain the same in new rubles as in the old. But bread would be cheaper by 12%, cereals by ten, and most other foods remain unchanged from their previous lowest levels. Because citizens whose prices would be cut greatly outnumbered those with unbanked hoards, there was more jubilation than grief in Russia at the Zhdanov decree...
...Christmas Conference of the Student League for Industrial Democracy at Detroit will be host to a large delegation from its Harvard counterpart...
...initial Eastern Intercollegiate League basketball game of the current season, the Crimson tackles an unknown quantity, Brown's 1947-48 quintet, on the Indoor Athletic Building court tonight at 8.45 o'clock. Harvard's Freshman five will open the Blockhouse sports festivities at 7 o'clock against its Brain counterpart...
...spite of intimations to the contrary, the coming Smoker should be a lusty replica of its pre-war counterpart, not a colorless compromise reminiscent of short-shrift USO combos. The tremendous carnivals of the past that tried to "make Daniel Boones of Freshmen" and worried lost they "shock the boys," belong with gate-welding, goldfish gulpings, and other rah-rah episodes now practically non-existent. It is up to the Freshman Class to conjure up a Smoker so well-rounded with frolic and so fully-packed with talent that the air will be blue for days...
...wintry evening, the Dunces entrenched at Jim Cronin's tavern and proceeded to lend the patronage some well-tuned culture. Cronin's, which likes to compare itself to Mory's down at Yale, soon decided that it would not institutionalize the Dunces, as its Eli counterpart had glorified the Whiffenpoofs...