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...visit to Mussoorie. That morning, he gave a political pep talk to local Congress Party workers, then moved on to Mussoorie's Savoy Hotel to address the Travel Agents Association of India, crisply advising his audience that travel "should involve some adventure, some risk, some hardship," because the "comfortable life is rightly boring and dull...
...court apparently takes the position," charged Black, "that a second trial for the same act is somehow less offensive if one of the trials is conducted by the Federal Government and the other by a state." In a surprising aside he noted that the majority opinions would work a hardship only on "the poor and the weak without friends in high places" who could "influence prosecutors not to try them again...
Radcliffe scholarships will be raised in specific cases of individual hardship in order to meet the new increase in rent charges, Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction, announced yesterday. A blanket enlargement of all grants, without consideration of personal difficulties, will not be undertaken...
...Curtiss-Wright-the cutbacks pushed total county unemployment to a record 15,900-more than 16% of the labor force. Lines started forming on Lafayette Street for handouts of surplus Government beans, rice and butter. At one point the city's Council of Community Services reported 3,788 hardship cases per month, and people could be heard wishing that Studebaker would go under once and for all. Says a Chamber of Commerce official: "A minority wanted Studebaker to die, so we could take a fresh look at our future. But most people thought if we lose Studey, South Bend...
...bracket, only 120,000 get grabbed by the draft each year. Thousands of others volunteer, but the fact is that in the skimpy-quota peacetime era it requires little imagination to think up a reason to be deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with six months of active duty and 7½ years of weekly drill and summer camp in the reserves or National Guard...