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...four games to date, the varsity has already demonstrated more power than it was able to muster all last season; the three home runs the team belted in the southern trip were three more than last year's nine...
Attlee had his motive. The activities of the two political personalities, Churchill and Bevan, were in a way interlocked. Churchill's stepping down means elections soon-the guessing is for a date in spring or fall-and elections mean that Clement Attlee needs all the strength he can muster to make Labor even a respectable loser, let alone a winner. Though his prestige will not be helped by the sudden attack of timidity and tolerance for the man who persistently defies his leadership, Attlee knows that the poor showing he would make in an election without Nye Bevan...
Tension in the Village. In Bahoi, a Camau community of 150 thatched huts beside a canal, it took an incoming Vietnamese lieutenant half an hour to muster up 150 villagers. The men stood impassively around him; the women peered out from shadows. "Among you are people friendly to the Viet Minh," the lieutenant said, "but look at the poverty and disease around you . . . The Viet Minh do nothing for the people. The Viet Minh are only interested in themselves and in bloodshed." The lieutenant's men began to hand out paper Vietnamese flags. Filipino doctors showed off wonder drugs...
...warfare. They have followed the lead of the national administration in adopting a policy of massive retaliation to deal with the forces that threaten us. Faced with the recent uprising in Charlestown, they did not attempt simply to put more men under arms than the enemy could muster. Realizing that the salaries paid penal officers could never compete with the quick riches to be won by a criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions, and brought lumbering over the roads from Fort Devens (at the risk of putting a few more kinks...
With all the clipped detachment it could muster, the BBC announced that Mrs. Knight's third talk this week would be a debate with a partisan of religion, Mrs. Jenny Morton-ex-missionary, clergyman's wife and mother of four. "I'm not angry," said Mrs. Morton. "Mrs. Knight's attitude is rather out-of-date...