Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tito himself cried alarm. "The least possible event in Europe," he broadcast, "is a localized war." It was a warning to the Kremlin that an attack might well be the step into World War III...
...chivalry, England's tournament-loving, debt-ridden King Edward III (1312-77) took a poor view of unregulated trade. To punish merchants who went on selling their wares after a fair had officially closed, Edward's Parliament passed a law under which anyone who successfully sued a black-marketeer could collect part of the culprit's fine...
Born. To Leopold III, 49, dethroned King of the Belgians, and his second wife, Mary Liliane Baels, Princess de Rethy, 34: their second child (his fifth), a daughter; in Brussels. Name: Marie-Christine Daphne Astrid Elisabeth Leopoldine. Weight...
...hardly fair to blame colleges in general, or Dartmouth in particular, for the triumph of Suburbia or the possibility of World War III. Colleges are symptoms and victims of a cosmic disease, and they cannot be cured by injections of radical hormones. World affairs are pushing college education around these days, and it may be a long time before ideals can turn the tables...
...Right after World War II, before the arteries hardened, before rigor mortis began to set in, when the Liberalism of the '30's contended with the Reaction of the late '40's. It was a good fight for three years--before Suburbia won the rubber match, and World War III became the trophy. From The Dartmouth, January...