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...Divinity School claims only four students, all veterans. Twenty-one of the 58 Law School students are ex-servicemen. Fourteen men are listed as members of the Society of Fellows and these, together with one Nieman Fellow and one special student, a veterans, bring the University total...
...Fourteen Yale faculty members wrote the New York Times that knowledge and better understanding in both nations would keep the peace. Conservative Columnist David Lawrence wrote: "Despite outer appearances . . . there are reasons for believing that the unity of the two countries . . . has not been disturbed and will not be. In the next few months [U.S.Russian relations] will tend to clarify and undergo substantial improvement...
Newly democratic Guatemala's university students went on a long-awaited rampage last week. Fourteen years ago Dictator Jorge Ubico had savagely suppressed their traditional Eastertide "Huelga Estudiantil" (Students' Strike); now at last, in the liberal light of President Juan José Arévalo's regime, it roared its way through the laugh-hungry city. Now there was at least twice the oldtime noise, fun, bawdiness...
...Navy's public relations up to its fighting arm's high standards. As short a time ago as the Saipan and Guam invasions, all on-the-spot reporting had to trickle back by courier to Pearl Harbor, which meant it got to the U.S. eight to fourteen days late. Then the Navy yielded to press complaints, sent censors along with its forward units. Finally, at Palau, news was filed directly from an admiral's flagship as soon as radio silence could be broken. Iwo Jima's press arrangements were better still...
...Bottom. Fourteen months later, the Hornet was at the bottom of the ocean. So were the Lexington, the Yorktown and the Wasp. The Enterprise was at Pearl Harbor, recovering from a year's accumulation of battle wounds. There was only one U.S. carrier fit for actioa in the Pacific, the old Saratoga. Marc Mitscher, now a rear admiral, was sweating in open-necked khakis in a Dallas hut by the Lunga River on Guadalcanal, commanding land-based aircraft in the Solomons...