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...Harvard Young Democratic Club will "in all probability" hold a mock political convention in the late spring, according to newly elected president Charles Edson '56. He said that the convention is a sign of the vitality of the HYDC, now the largest political organization in the College...
...regard this as a pledge to the membership," Edson added. He included this pledge as part of a platform which gained him the presidency of the organization at Wednesday night's elections...
PREFERRED RISK (248 pp.)-Edson Mc-Cann-Simon & Schuster...
...opening journey through a troubled corner of The Company's world brought Author Edson McCann (pseudonym for "a government scientist") a $6,500 contest prize as 1955's best science-fiction story. But, with its minimum of electronic gadgetry and with no space excursions at all, Preferred Risk stays close to the ground and takes a jitney ride along the broad highway charted by George Orwell six years ago in 1984. Author McCann, throwing politics away as excess baggage, just zips along, fast, wry, and sometimes ingenious...
Just one border shooting broke the silence and the Israelis hastened to apologize for that. In this atmosphere the U.N. Security Council, called into special session in Manhattan after an appeal from the UN truce chief. Major General Edson L.M. Burns of Canada, found itself in rare-unanimity. By vote of 11 to 0 (the U.S. and Russia both voting aye), the council called on Israel and Egypt to work out something with General Burns "forthwith," and endorsed his idea of creating a border neutral zone and raising a barbed wire barricade along the Gaza line to keep the troops...