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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes left Harry Truman's service in 1947, he had kept mum about politics. His silence during the presidential campaign led fellow South Carolinians to wonder whether he looked on the Dixiecrats with favor. But not until last week did he let anybody know how he really felt about things: in the midst of a speech on foreign affairs he let loose a hot blast of scorn at the domestic Fair Deal...
This College has kept its integrity. It has sheltered unorthodoxy just as it has sheltered grifters. It has needled the orthodox world from time to time, just as it has occasionally disturbed its own conformists. Its only requirement of its students has been that they think once in a while and wear costs and ties to dinner...
Compiling the new Alumni Directory was a giant task that kept Alumni Records Director Peter E. Pratt '40 and a staff of 20 assistants busy for many months...
...hope as well as fear. At Kaesong, a border city which North Koreans often raid (they killed 30 people there last fortnight), I visited the lovely garden of a wealthy Korean. The owner had moved to Seoul months ago, fearing Communists would nab him. But his gardens are perfectly kept. The head gardener, surprised by my surprise at this, explained: "He hopes to come back. What is any garden but an expression of faith in the future...
Ospina, with army men replacing some of the departed Liberals, kept his promise of a fair election. Compared to the preelection bloodshed, in which some 200 people were killed, the election went off with unexpected order. Seven men were killed on election day. When the results began coming in, mild-mannered Ospina Perez knew that his ordeal was not ended. The Liberals led by more than 100,000 votes. They again controlled both houses of Congress, but unofficial returns cut their lower house majority from 15 to eight. At week's end, the President still had to choose between...