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Pens & Runways. The new prison pens, intended to house no more than 520 men each, measure some 200 by 155 ft. and are surrounded by a double fence of barbed wire. They are arranged in groups of eight in larger enclosures, which are also fenced with double barriers of barbed wire. The large enclosures are traversed by a central barbed-wire runway, which makes it easy for guards to reach any of the smaller pens with tear gas. Constant and thorough searches, and floodlighting at night are expected to prevent the prisoners from cutting the wire and thus assembling...
...going, to say, but all Israelis had been expecting something drastic. Their new country simply has not been able to make ends meet. All but $2,000,000 of the $200 million in loans and grants-in-aid from the U.S. Government has been spent. (Israel has received a larger share per capita of U.S. grants and loans than any nation in the world.) The last $11,500,000 of the $65 million U.S. grants-in-aid intended for capital improvements had to be diverted to pay current bills. With an expensive army and ambitious capital improvements to be paid...
Backed by Guatemala's influential Communists, the bill is designed to double the number of small landholders by expropriating larger landholders' untilled fields. Owners of such idle lands-possibly one-third of the country's arable acreage-will be paid off with 25-year government bonds. The bill exempts all farms of 225 acres or less and farms of less than 675 acres on which at least two-thirds of the acreage is cultivated. Also exempt, because they are cultivated: the vast banana plantations of the U.S.-owned United Fruit...
...need for such decentralization has come about because of the University's increasing complexity. "It's not that the University has grown so much larger over the years," the president remarks, "but that it has become so much more complex. Since the time President Eliot disbanded the School of Veterinary Medicine, the University has abandoned none of its projects and departments, while adding dozens of new ones. I'm not saying that these additions are not excellent projects, but they do make the University unbelievably unwieldly...
Evidence & Principle. In states where political parties are evenly balanced, it is not easy to take seriously the fear that one party will try to control the other. But in states such as Texas, the threat that members of the larger party will grab control of the smaller is always present. It is by no means established that this is, in fact, what happened in Texas. The bulk of the evidence suggests that most Ike voters were acting in good faith, were disgusted with the Fair Deal and saw Ike as the candidate most likely to turn the Democrats...