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Although students with excessive employment loads have been eligible for PT reduction as "hardship cases" upon petition to the administration and Department of Athletics, Council inquiry revealed "only two or three such cases" this year...
...Fire. Between times, the delegates uncertainly considered the future. "Labor's afraid of prosperity," warned the miners' Sam Watson. "Maybe we did found the party out of bitterness and hardship, but those days are gone. Our task now is to learn to enjoy plenty." The party executive's best proposal was a three-year study to shape policy on specific problems. "That's a fat lot of fire to take home to the boys," grumbled one delegate. "Lump of suet dough, that's what I call...
...first try to prevent capture, and once captured, aid their fellow prisoners and use every means to escape. Under new orders issued by Defense Secretary Wilson, military instructors deepen this resourcefulness by training men how to avoid interrogation, to minimize suffering, and increase their chances of survival. Easing the hardship of captivity demands every capacity of each prisoner of war. Yet the new conduct code fails our soldiers when it asks them to rely on their strength in a valiant but obviously hopeless attempt to convince Communist sympathizers of the fairness of American war morals...
...hardly ever does anything more than raise his head to peer weakly through a cloud of flies at the antelope who pass disdainfully a few feet from where he lies, knowing that it is the queen who brings home most of the bacon. In fact, the only demonstrable hardship in a lion's life is the rainy season, during which the tropic plains sometimes lie sunk under six inches of water. The lion looks terribly unhappy about it, but he lies down anyway...
...Passed, after a long and lackluster debate, a bill raising the U.S. minimum wage from 75? to $1. The 362-54 vote came over Administration objections that a minimum wage of more than 90? would work a hardship on some small businessmen with narrow profit margins. If signed by the President, the bill (already approved in much the same form by the Senate) may give pay raises to some 2,000,000 workers...