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Under the now-defunct plan, students paid $280 to cross the Atlantic. Next summer, it is estimated the least expensive accommodations--tourist-class berths on luxury liners--will be about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Order Hampers Student Exchange Program | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...Student Council will vote Monday, on proposed rules for undergraduate publications. The Council ordered new regulations to be drawn up after the University refused to recognize the now defunct New Student last spring...

Author: By F. BRUCE Lewis, | Title: Publication Rules Come Before Council Monday | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

...Party in 1911, he published a letter in the party newspaper "denouncing respectability, defending violence, and declaring my scorn of 'the good or bad opinion of everybody in the world but the whole fighting proletariat.'" He became editor of The Masses (a Socialist forerunner of the now defunct Communist New Masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enormous Trifle | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...which Salvemini fears most are war which would mean the total downfall of Europe, Tite's taking possession of Trieste, and a Communist triumph in the elections. The Fascists, who were not powerful in 1946, must be reckoned with in this election since they hold about half of the defunct Common Man party's votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reds in Italy Seen as Weak By Salvemini | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

...last the storm stopped. But for thousands of suburbanites, the memory lingered on. Among them was an airplane pilot, who had gone to his Bucks County, Pa. farm before the sleet began, had spent a night reading by candle light, glaring at his defunct radio, and listening to the sound of his prize maples collapsing under the weight of the ice. In the morning, as he set about trying to get back to LaGuardia Field, he made further discoveries: he could get no water (his electric pump was dead), no gasoline for his car (gas pumps were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Dirty Week | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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