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...China's Communist Party (12 million) is the world's largest, followed by Russia's "nearly 8,000,000." Of the world's 33 million Communists, 84% belong to Communist Parties that are in power...
Give us back our Coliseum so U.S.C. can field the nation's best track teams before the nation's largest track and field crowds...
Just about the last place France expected to be troublesome was Tahiti. The largest island of French Polynesia, Tahiti, 2,600 miles southeast of Hawaii, spends most of its time dreaming under swaying palms while the surf breaks gently on the coral reefs. Generations of expatriates-from Melville to Robert Louis Stevenson to Gauguin-have fled to the islands seeking forgetfulness in the company of sunlit skies and black-haired amoral vahines...
Last week the headmistress of one private school defended the costume: "There is no reason for a girl to be a girl until she leaves school. That's quite early enough." A buyer for Daniel Neal, largest English supplier of children's uniforms, presented a different defense: "The British schoolgirl just doesn't have the sort of figure one ought to draw attention to. Her poor little tum bulging with rice pudding, you know, and no foundation garments to take care of her seat. More often than not she is covered with a thick layer of puppy...
...History Department, with 15 conference courses offered this year, serves the largest graduate body of the three departments. Less than one-tenth of the enrollment in conference groups is undergraduate. This is barely 2 per cent of all undergraduate history concentrators. Since there is less turn-over in the middle-group courses, and less chance that a period will not be covered, the History Department keeps its "200" courses literally, as the register announces, "primarily for graduates." There is also less undergraduate demand in this department for seminar work. Myron P. Gilmore, departmental chairman, has suggested that the history faculty...