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...offices in Tito's Communist capital of Belgrade last week, there was darkness at noon. The dictator had gone too far too fast in trying to turn his peasant country into a Socialist workers' paradise. Belgrade's superannuated and overloaded power stations first began to falter and fail last January. At that time the city was arbitrarily divided into three zones, each of which was cut off from all power supply for four hours twice a week. Every other day private homes all over the city were kept in the dark for an additional eight hours...
...play. Botsford ran through the sweat-suit drill and will start this afternoon at tailback. Quarterback Jerry Marsh will call signals and fullback Tony Gianelly should plunge for the short ones and back up the line on defense. Jordan plans to start Bob Cowles at wing. Should he falter, Joe Conzelman, who played his best game of the season against Princeton, will replace...
...contest at PBH grew tense as one by one the nine entrants began to falter. A graduate student at the Law School, Alan Hunt, came in second, puffing for 53 minutes, with Ira J. Rimson '56 lasting 46 minutes to place third. The New England record was 74 minutes...
...picture is uncannily enhanced by the musical score. The cold, otherworldly picking of the samisen snips the threads of reality one by one, and the audience floats free among music that tries to express the intimate noises of the toiling spirit. The photography never once permits this mood to falter. Even the most violent scenes are dissolved in a meditative mist, like terrors in the mind of a sage. The moviegoer has the sense of living in a classic Japanese watercolor or of walking on a world that is really a giant pearl...
Ever since his Wheeling speech, the Tribune has endorsed McCarthy editorially, spotlighted his probes in blaring headlines, and defended him with colored caricatures of his opponents. Only once did Colonel McCormick falter. When General Zwicker faced the Senator's invective, army veteran McCormick reflected and said: "It seems to us that Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel." But after two weeks of retrospect, the Tribune eased back into the Senator's fold: "Senator McCarthy has been trying to clean out some of the subversive...