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...softball, Chuck Brynteson pitched and batted Dunster to a 3 to 0 triumph over Kirkland. Brynteson gave up only three hits and knocked in the eventual winning run with a first-inning single. Meanwhile, Leverett's softball team put on a power display to crush Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Nips Winthrop, 4-2; Donelan Gets Win | 5/6/1950 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Arab League has been unable to unite the Arab world in a great crusade to crush Israel, as it threatened to do. The League did not like the peace seetlement that ended the war in Palestine. It promised to avenge its defeats, and asked its members to invoke economic sanctions against all countries which recognized the new state of Israel. But the League could not unify its members in peace any more than it could unify its armies during...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 5/5/1950 | See Source »

Once during Kumbh Day a crowd of bathers returning from the pool collided with the mass of pilgrims on their way to bathe. In the crush, 32 people were trampled to death. This was the only major misfortune of the festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Urn Festival | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Some of the lower-standard four-year colleges that cannot attract the national scholarship money may still collapse. But Federal aid to state systems would provide two-year colleges to replace whichever of ht weaker four-year schools still go bankrupt in the crush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crisis in Education | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

...convalescing from his stomach operation for almost three months, Acting President Li Tsung-jen received reporters on a windswept terrace in the Bronx. While Madame Li scuffed in annoyance at an occasional leaf (see cut), Li denounced Chiang as a "dictator" and "usurper," doughtily vowed he would "return to crush this movement," but failed to explain when or how. Then he boarded a train for Washington to eat a hearty lunch with President Truman. Just before he left New York, Li had a cablegram. From Formosa, President Chiang expressed hope that Acting President Li would, indeed, be able to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Return of the Gimo | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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