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Jordan said that the problems, which concerned the Committee for years, are "heightening to the point of a serious crisis." He pointed to the fact that over the past 13 years, applications have increased six-fold, while the College has increased only 25 per cent...
...years since the paper was born to shimmy with the Moscow line, the Communist Party has huffed, puffed and passed the hat repeatedly to save Manhattan's Daily Worker from folding. Last week the party tried for the first time to fold the Worker deliberately-and found to its chagrin that the hardy little rag kept right on coming...
This made little sense to uranium men, who saw as their only incentive a present-day market for their ores. Many of the small-time uranium miners who do not have contracts to sell to existing mills will fold up altogether. Such a fallout could peril future U.S. uranium supply, since some of the richest U.S. uranium lodes have been discovered by the small timers who were willing to search in the most improbable places. Said Albuquerque's E. P. Chapman Jr., one of the Southwest's top mining engineers: "The new policy kills all further exploration...
...girl was pretty, but like most Asians she had a heavy-lidded look. At their widest, her eyes did not appear to open as wide as a Caucasian's; half-closed, her lids showed no crease or fold running across them, and her lashes always pointed down. Like other Japanese girls, she had been impressed by the postwar flood of U.S. movies and magazines. Instead of the traditional Japanese ideal of beauty-sloe-eyed, smooth-featured, flat-chested-many of them want to be more like their Western cousins with high noses, round eyes, curly lashes and prominent busts...
...nation's new rulers took over with an impressive program of local improvements, including nationalization of the nation's only two factories, which both manufacture ceramic souvenirs for the tourist trade. But the new deal never quite came off. One by one the Red faithful left the fold. Three weeks ago San Marino's Demo-Christian minority leader suddenly woke up to the fact that his party now commanded a clear majority of 31 to 29 in the Council. Aware of the same ugly fact, San Marino's two Red "Regents" promptly dissolved the Council...