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American Student Defense League, Harvard Chapter, remains the name of the group, but "militant aid for Britain" will now be emphasized as the focal point of the new policy. The new organization will continue to cooperate with the Student Defenders of Democracy...
...minded citizen stands in the prop wash of many a muddled controversy. He realizes that the U. S. aircraft industry has grown in three years from a midget employing fewer than the knit underwear trade to the focal point of Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" which today holds Britain's life in the balance. But he is confused by fragments of ill-ordered, semi-secretive information and misinformation fired at him haphazardly by the press, labor, Government, business. Out of this confusion this week came an encyclopedic attempt to synthesize the whole problem: the all-aviation March issue...
...Consider at this time the advisability of breaking off diplomatic relations with Germany. This would not only symbolize our attitude, but it would put us in a position to urge our Latin-American neighbors to do likewise, thus enabling us to rid ourselves of the focal points of intrigue and subversive activity...
...rioting during which its streets were barricaded on some six occasions, Napoleon III commissioned Baron Eugene Georges Haussmann in 1853 to beautify the city and in doing so to eliminate the tangled mass of crooked streets so ideal for riots and street fighting. The wide boulevards and strategically located focal points such as the Etoile thus came into being. Haussmann figured that barricades could not be easily erected across wide boulevards, nor could the favorite technique of shooting and heaving bricks from upper-story windows be so handily employed. The focal points where several boulevards converged were ideal as artillery...
...London rushed Bokhari to organize publicity, reorganize BBC programs for his countrymen. A friend of Gandhi, Bose, Nehru and other top notchers in the Indian National Congress, Bokhari hopes to make "freedom of India" the focal point of all his broadcasts. Aiding him, is his old boss Lionel Fielden...