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...couple of days after the Ides of January, Boston will celebrate the first anniversary of a crime that is no nearer solution now than it was last winter. So far the $1,217,000 of Brink's haul has bought only three things: an open season on armored trucks, a few Hallowe'en mask robberies, and a noticeable decline of crime in Massachusetts. Robberies in the Boston area took a noticeable downward trend after January 17 last, when seen men "of medium height and weight," clad in navy pea jackets and wearing grotesque Hallowe'en masks, carried out the largest...
...Calculation of the orbit of the asteroid Eros by Dr. Eugene Rabe of the University of Cincinnati Observatory. This led to the discovery that the earth is 1/10th of 1% nearer the sun than previous calculations had placed it (92.9 million miles...
Freshmen and graduate students who go to the H.A.A. ticket office today will find Holy Cross ducats galore as close as section 35 (from the 15 to the 25 yard lines) for the first time this year. This will bring them ten yards nearer to mid-field than they were last week...
...fifth anniversary of the ratification of the U.N. Charter, the world stands no nearer to permanent peace than it did in 1945. Peace treaties are still unsigned, the Cold War is still raging, and the East-West cleavage in the world is much more clearly defined. China has gone Communist, Germany appears to be permanently divided, and we have even had a little "hot" war in the Pacific. But the fact that the United Nations is still meeting at all, and that conference tables still exist after five years of vetoes, boycotts, slanders, and unilateral action, can be taken...
Both the Law School and the Foundation drives will continue until they are nearer their goals. Once these capital drives are out of the way both groups are thinking in terms of an annual request for alumni, funds, much as the Harvard Fund now solicits College alumni...