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...Last-ditch campaigning against the War Memorial Committee's $75,000 plaque recommendation will reach a climax today when a pamphlet attacking the proposal goes out to 38,000 alumni of the College...
With only minor variations, the issue which revived the slogans in 1948 was the same one which had created them in 1832 and 1911: the noble Lords were in a last-ditch fight against a reformist government, battling to save what few political teeth they still had left. But precedent was against them. Always before they had fought, and always lost...
...Britain, where socialized medicine is about to become a fact (but not without some last-ditch fighting), the British Medical Association reluctantly came to a decision. After a vote of its members, it decided not to oppose (and force its members to boycott) the government's National Health Service. When the Health Act goes into effect on July 5, every Briton will be entitled to free medical service at government expense. British doctors who join the Service will get a yearly retainer of ?300 ($1,200) plus additional fees for services rendered...
...month ago, Pan Am and Panagra carried their fight to Congress. They pointed out that Braniff had asked for airmail subsidies of $3,000,000 a year, 22 times what it had originally estimated it would need. Last week they made a last-ditch effort to get CAB to hold new hearings...
...longer than most of her neighbors. This week it seemed to be the Czechs' turn. Communist Premier Klement Gottwald was getting set to turn the country into a one-party state. In Prague, Czechoslovakia's ailing, tenacious little President Eduard Benes backed into what might be the last-ditch fight of his life...