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...movement was not making much of a dent in the Taft stronghold in the Midwest. Snapped the Chicago Tribune last week, commenting on Eisenhower's candidacy: "The American people are asked to buy a pig in a poke. They are asked to accept as a Republican a man whose whole career has been achieved through New Deal patronage . . . Why should the party advertise that it is utterly wanting in conviction by accepting a candidate who represents the basic tenets of the opposition...
...Islam in adversity is as great a marvel of impervious defense as it once was a marvel of invincible expansion. It survived three centuries of almost complete political and economic subjugation by alien powers. Generations of Christian mission aries beat upon it without making a dent. Year after year, the converts to Islam far outnumber the apostates from Islam...
Dartmouth has a strong club this year, but has been hard hit by Coach Tom Dent's early season illness and the cancellation of its spring trip. The Big Green routed M.I.T. by one goal more than the Crimson, and walloped Syracuse; losses were suffered to Hobart, Yale (5 to 4), and Springfield...
...skeds got their start by buying surplus war transports, are still largely shoestring operations. Since they don't have to give the public service on unprofitable runs, they stick to runs where traffic is heaviest. CAB knows that its new regulation will make a big dent in the non-skeds' business, but it offered the non-skeds something else. It would permit them to fly on domestic routes on a contract basis for the Department of Defense. But such permission is no help, say the non-skeds, unless they can also carry civilian passengers over the same runs...
...entry's basement will also offer a continuous supply of milk and fruit juice to non Coca-Cola partisans. With all this, the Dunster House Committee is hoping to make a notable dent in the sales of Square snack shops. Only with an adequate House demand can they remain in business. And, for these saving a nightly half-hour,, prices will be "fair...