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Rumors were making the rounds last week that Moscow had completed plans to overthrow Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. The coup d'etat, so the story ran, would start with a Moscow-engineered revolt in Belgrade. Tito would be liquidated. Satellite parachutists would descend on the Yugoslav capital; mechanized troops would roll across the frontier, presumably from Hungary, where by latest reports the Russians had five divisions (including two armored), were busily constructing airstrips. The rumors differed only on the timing of the coup: some said it was due this month, others next spring...
There are no turnstiles on the Metro. Tickets are sold at booths, but most riders buy tickets in advance by the book. The passengers descend to the platforms by long ramps or escalators. Everything is brightly lighted, frequently by indirect ceiling lighting. An attendant tears off a part of the ticket, as in a U.S. movie house. Most of the subway attendants and some of the drivers are women...
...endured until it has blown over, then the second half of the 20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break forth from God's word and by the love which will not let us go, then 1950 will see a momentous turning point in Christian history...
...excruciatingly pleasant sensation to descend from your parch at game's end and to stride a purposefully through the crowd, flaunting press passes and demanding entrance to the locker rooms. The petty officials delegated to guard such sanctums are inevitably a suspicious, lot, and it is indeed pleasant to brush these minions aside and enter to mingle with the great. Perhaps it is such moments as these which lead droves of young men to enter that underpaid and overworked field which is journalism...
Leighton was not sure whether the disciplinary problem would descend to the College level. He admitted that if it does he will be "somewhat non-plussed...