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...four other respects, the Assembly stands on its own feet: it approves the budgets of the organization, elects the six nonpermanent members of the Security Council and the eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council, supervises subsidiary social and economic agencies, and promotes cooperation in "political, economic and social fields"-without interference from the Security Council...
Music is an old, sweet story to nuns of the Roman Catholic Church. For some eighteen centuries they have been chanting matins and vespers in their convent chapels. Last week, in Chicago's austere Orchestra Hall, a choir of 80 nuns sang on a public stage, for the first time in history...
...unfrozen Vistula 57 miles south of the city, widened his bridgehead and then struck with the full weight of his armor to carve out a breakthrough. Zhukov's tanks fought and won two battles as they sped northward to the Warsaw-Lódź highway. Eighteen miles north of the city another Russian force made its crossings, struck through to join the main column on the highway. Warsaw was taken from the rear. By the time it fell, most of Zhukov's columns were closing around Lódź, 70 miles to the west...
...Army has the greatest number of Harvard war dead, with 178, while the Navy follows with 101. Eighteen have died in the Marines, 11 with the armed forces of Great Britain, eight in the Canadian services, seven in the United States Coast Guard, two in the Field Service, one in the Merchant Marine, and one each with the Fighting French and the Norwegian and Peruvian Air Forces. Six of the dead were civilians in special uniformed services or on government duty in combat areas...
...eighteen-year Odyssey of this country editor has included battles against gamblers, the Ku Klux Klan, crooked politicians, and race prejudice. The Independent has consistently led the town's opinion, and is now spurring it on to an unusual war service record...