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...invasion of China would consume hordes of men and millions of dollars in an operation which . . . would be fruitless. In the battle's midst, the public would sicken of the drain and the campaign would grind to a farcical halt. . . . Using Chiang would be employing a discredited army and a has-been who is considered reactionary and dictatorial throughout the Far East. It would . . . burden this county with the worst sort of albatross...
After 48 laps, Vukovich made a pit stop, took on fuel and four new wheels, all in 49 seconds. He lost the lead momentarily, but five laps later he had it back. The heat and the grind began to take their toll. Cars broke down, and seven swerved into spectacular accidents in which no one was seriously hurt. Worn-out drivers turned their cars over to relief men. After 70 laps Carl Scarborough, 38, dropped out. Later that day, he died of heat exhaustion...
...President, he reported, had shot an 86, thus breaking 90, as far as anyone knew, for the first time since Inauguration Day. He acted as though he had been fully compensated for the rigors of the week as he prepared once more to face the White House grind...
...Square tomb, where on state occasions Russian bigwigs customarily line up in careful order like squat tenpins, state sculptors chiseled the name CTARNH (Stalin) just below Lenin's. Presses began to grind out millions of copies of the three funeral orations by Malenkov, Beria and Molotov, and in many a dingy meeting hall from Thuringia to Tibet, dutiful comrades set to study them. It was important to get things straight, for this was the new catechism of Communism, to be echoed in a thousand Communist speeches and editorials. Thus Stalin got his reserved seat in the hierarchy...
Those tired of present publications can find solace in the Archives' collection of every paper and magazine published at the College. The Harvard Anarchist and the Harvard Grind tell of student unrest, while the Harvard Brewer's Gazette, published in the early 1900's, pines for the old days of bygone fermented grandeur...