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...garnered a majority. A major attempt to force a compromise and end the haggling failed in February, but virtually the same plan succeeded last Friday when five votes seated Michael Neville. Regardless of whether the elusive majority materialized with the Spring, or whether it stemmed from Governor Bradford's edict to produce or else, the shouting is over and the Mayor's chair is filled...
...Communist-cored Greater New York C.I.O. Council, which was noisily defying Murray's edict against backing Henry Wallace, took a stiff right hook from Michael J. Quill, boss of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union. Tough Mike, heeding Murray's gospel, quit as president of the council, and advised New York City's 42,000 subway workers and bus drivers to have nothing more to do with...
...plot of "Touch of the Times" stems from a factory worker's loss of his girl to a fellow worker. He seeks solace in flying a kite and remains apart. Soon the other factory workers follow suit, and everyone is flying kites. When the factory issues on edict against kite-flying, everyone goes back to his job except the hero, who just continues flying his kite and is immensely happy...
...only feel that the removal of the department is contrary to Harvard's General Education program and the newly organized, though less publicized, Regional Studies Plan, and to the best interests of Harvard in general. Before our valuable staff in the department takes leave of us, the edict should be carefully reconsidered. Peter B. Roll...
Morison's edict gave many of his students qualms that he might be suffering from a "noblesse oblige" complex, a hangover from his officer days...