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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, there are too many of them. The average requirement of two General Education courses plus the compulsory Gen. Ed. Ahf affair runs to twenty papers a year--four times the usual upper class load. If Freshmen spent the four or five days their instructors say a typical G.E. theme needs, they would be pouring a third of their first year into papers alone...
Germans first got stirred up over the recruiters last November, when German border guards were roughly handled by French gendarmes as they tried to stop a bus load of legion recruits crossing from Germany into France (others are ferried across the Rhine by night, or flown over by air ferry). Last week the West German Bundestag voted to jail anyone "recruiting or attempting to recruit" Germans for service in a foreign army outside Germany. The vote was unanimous, a rare event in the Bundestag. The only hitch is that the law will apply only to Germans, for the French under...
...burgeoning prosperity-the gift of the cocoa plant, which grows more than 20 feet tall in the dark, rain-drenched forests. Last year the Gold Coast's plantations, all owned by Africans, grew a third of the world's cocoa. And with prices at $10 a load (60 lbs.), the growers are crowding their mud huts with radios, sewing machines, bicycles and even TV sets (though there is no TV station to tune...
...themselves astounded, and then set desperately to work to get the fish to the Queen before it spoiled. Moore waited in agony while an overdue train from Grimsby crept toward him through the fog. A crew of cold-storage experts stood by to repack the sturgeon in a new load of ice on Moore's truck. When all was set, Moore's general manager nipped off through the fog with the precious burden to London, 125 miles away. Meanwhile, in Grimsby, Fishmonger Cleve fretted for fear Moore was stealing the show. "The acceptance was to me," he insisted...
...Clothesline. For housewives plagued by sagging clotheslines, Louisville's Puritan Cordage Mills began national sale of a line which stays taut. Made of cotton braided over a Fiberglas core, it does not stretch appreciably even under the weight of a full load of wet clothes. Price: 89? per 50-ft. length...