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Fearful of the loss of their trading privileges with a Britain economically wedded to the Six (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands), the Commonwealth countries wanted no part of the Common Market. "Old friendships fade," observed the Australian correspondent of the London Economist acidly. "The club is not what it was. The far-flung Empire became the glorious Commonwealth; and then suddenly it seemed nothing but a millstone round Britain's neck as Britain tried to get into the swim...
Some may soon run the country-and some may soon fade away. Whatever their future, a few extraordinary graduates from U.S. campuses, this year as every year, have already achieved that rare blend of ability and ambition that ignores all obstacles and stretches all talents. Last week TIME correspondents picked a dozen of the top graduates from top schools...
While room rents fell and scholarships rose in the fade of Depression, the College created 300 new student jobs in the House system. Freshmen in 1932 and '33 had it brought home to them that the College was an unlikely place in which to escape completely from financial worries. The financial crisis which probably touched closest to undergraduates was the Lampoon's; the CRIMSON recorded that 'Poonies had admitted complete despair late in the fall, and appealed for funds in several directions at once. Harvard's only humor magazine and Cambridge's sole newspaper struggled through the winter and following...
...Eichmann slipped through everyone's hands? Partly, it was his very physical greyness, his ability in any room or group to fade into the background. Besides, he had learned all the bureaucratic tricks. "The important thing," he assured an aide, "is to be covered by your superiors at all times." In his years in power, after every conference with his bosses, Eichmann made full notes of all that was said. He was meticulous in memos to indicate just who had ordered him to do what. Orders that might prove damaging, he sent out over the name of a superior...
...they do not demand to be brought home alive. They transmit to earth all the information that they have gathered in space: then they die as streaks of fire without reproach or protest. Or they land on the moon or Mars and stay there, reporting faithfully until their radios fade...