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...consistently refused. Chief stumbling bloc: the Congressmen from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts who fear that the seaway might divert trade from ports in their states. Last week, however, another seaway bill went to the floor of the Senate, and breaks soon appeared in the traditional anti-seaway dike...
...varsity's 8 to 0 victory over the Wanderers' in the second game was probably the season's major upset, especially in the lift of the Wanderers' 23 to 8 win against the Crimson in Bermuda. Johnny Nicholas and Dike Hyde played outstandingly, as did the entire team...
...tenured professors. The risks involved in keeping a known and non-disciplined Communist are much smaller than those implicit in breaking the tenure code because of a lawful though stupid political affiliation. Because breaking tenure rules in even one unjustified instance is like drilling a hole in a dike, a Communist should have as much of a chance as anyone else to show his competence to his fellow teachers...
...little attention to battles; they are more interested in the performance of trucks and jeeps for Fleet Owner, or of airplanes, for Aviation Week. Covering the recent European floods for Engineering News-Record, McGraw-Hill correspondents left the human toll to other reporters, instead filed detailed stories on dike construction and how future floods could be prevented...
...never understood why you liked Americans so much," wrote one Dutch woman to a friend in the U.S. "To me, their insistence on the story of the boy with his finger in the dike always seemed indicative of their lack of understanding. I admit now I was totally wrong. Here they were with their trucks and helicopters, picking up people, bringing them in, and going right out on another mission. What struck me was that their hearts were in it, just as our Dutch hearts were." Offers of aid to The Netherlands had poured in from far away. A factory...