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...biggest football crowd since the 1946 Yale game will jam Harvard Stadium Saturday afternoon to witness the Dartmouth raid...
...made a few specific promises: an increased minimum wage, broadened and increased social-security benefits, a strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...
...undeniable, of course, that Soviet trickery got the U.S. into a jam. Somehow, I can't get indignant about this trickery, any more than I can about the first baseman who hides the ball in his glove and waits for the runner to take a lead off the bag. In the major leagues, you just don't fall for tricks like that...
...field of entertainment, the Voice does an impressive job. It alternates the New York Philharmonic with jam sessions, offers foreign listeners forums, cultural roundups, discussions of U.S. science, literature, ballet, and dramatizations of various aspects of U.S. life (e.g., installment buying). To date, no U.S. comedians or soap operas have been broadcast to overseas listeners...
...press and radio give us an almost exact gauge of the effectiveness of our programs . . . Radio Moscow's efforts to answer the message of Democracy, carried by the Voice, have grown into a hysterical scream during recent weeks, and 18 Soviet stations have been identified as trying to jam us. We are clearly stinging the Kremlin...