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...Fourteen months after Germany's collapse the nations are still fiddling with the relatively easy issues on the periphery. In the center of the puzzle is a great hole which this Paris conference is not supposed to touch. The hole might be expressed as: what to do about Europe? Molotov hinted at the Russian answer last fortnight-an eventual Russo-German alliance which would dominate Europe. The West's reaction was a stiffening attitude and a move to unite the western zones of Germany under democratic auspices...
Mapping out a plan of attack on next fall's housing front is turning Dr. Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, into a master strategist. When an undergraduate, he had an untidy roommate who owned fourteen suits and left them in fourteen heaps. Therefore, Dr. Perkins looks forward with sympathetic agony to the Spartan task of cramming 440 students into a house built...
Because few enlisted men had so far asked for their dependents, the passenger list was top-heavy with officers' families. Among the fourteen generals' wives: Mrs. Mark W. Clark, Mrs. John C. H. Lee, Mrs. Lucius Clay; no less excited: Mrs. Frederick G. Mahn of Stoneham, Mass., wife of a second lieutenant...
...rule of the Senatorial filibuster, because it was felt that an attack on these institutions would kill whatever chance of Congressional acceptance he reform proposals night have. The report, however, does advocate another hotly, debated innovation--creation of a legislative-executive cabinet. Sitting in this cabinet are to be fourteen Congresmen, chosen equally from Presidential supporters in each house, who will be responsible for formulating the Administration's over-all legislative policy. These Congresional leaders, together with the President and heads of his chief agencies, would form the Joint Legislative-Executive Council, whose function would be to resolve the perennial...
...what of the instructor who, convinced that the way to be a good teacher is to teach, throws, himself heart and soul into tutorial work? The answer, given time and again across the past fourteen years, has been unvarying. He will almost without exception he dropped at the end of his temporary appointment...