Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Switzerland, which has not been invaded since 1815, believes in keeping its powder dry, its nose clean and its cupboard full. Two years ago, fearing a World War III, the Swiss government advised its citizens to stock up their pantries. Last week, apprehensive lest its citizens are becoming too complacent, the War Office urged all householders to look to their larders again. For the first time, the War Office arranged for the sale of a $2 package containing a minimum one-person, two-month ration of imported products (two kilos of rice, two of sugar, and one liter...
Notre Dame's famous football coach Frank Leahy posed with his wife and personal Irish squad of eight little Leahys, now ranging from two-month-old Chris to 15-year-old Frank III, for a family picture. Furthermore, said Frank Jr., "we're still on the offense...
...only one who registered any surprise was Charles W. Chastain, III '52, a spokesman for the newly-formed Students for Stevenson club...
Reappearing Silver. The Imperial's rooms were opened to all comers, at rates ranging from $7 to $30 a day for a room, and almost immediately were booked until late summer. (Among the early reservations: John D. Rockefeller III, Opera Star Helen Traubel.) Its famed Peacock Room, hung with the season's first cherry blossoms and paper lanterns, overflowed with bowing Japanese-including Emperor Hirohito's daughter-who ate from new silverware and fine china that has been brought from hiding...
...down on overall College ranklist standings at mid-year's is as follows: Group I, 2.9 percent; II, 10.6; III, 20.8; IV, 26.7; V, 20.5; VI, 4.8; Insufficient, 1.5, Unsatisfactory, 11.4, and Withdrawals...