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Seven come eleven. That's what Jaakko Mikkola's nine-man Varsity track unit rolled at the IC4A championships in New York Saturday when the seven points it scored landed the team in eleventh place in the 42-college field...
Cambridge's legislative carnival is now rocketing into its seventh fun-packed week and still no Mayor. With 841 sterile ballots to their credit since January 5th, the nine-man City Council is eagerly looking forward to the thousand mark, at which time, it is reported, each member will receive a complimentary copy of "Laughing Gas" by Dr. O. H. Schneiderman, anesthetist at Bregman Memorial Hospital...
Commenting last night, on Donovan's article, Ulric R. Neisser '50, chairman of the Political Action Committee of the HLU and temporary secretary of the nine-man committee directing Sunday's meeting, said that the value of UMT program is "certainly minimal," in view of the importance of atomic war-fare, and characterized it as a "futile, expensive, and dangerous" measure. Neisser revealed that he will send a reply to Donovan, through "Shannonigans" within the next few days...
...Dimitrov's own National Assembly at Sofia, Deputy Kosta Lulchev, spokesman of the isolated little nine-man parliamentary opposition, had dared to criticize the budget as "insincere and unreal." Dimitrov gave them Red blazes: "Miserable chatterers, talking like a foreign gramophone record . . .! You will remember that in this Assembly I many times warned coalition members of Nikola Petkov's group but they did not listen. They lost their heads, and their leader lies buried. Reflect on your own actions, lest you suffer the same fate . . .!" Lulchev and associates reflected furiously. Dimitrov's budget was adopted unanimously...
...managed to effect a forty percent salary increase for all city employees, buy $1,200,000 worth of war surplus equipment for $300,000, and appropriate $1,500,000 for permanent veterans housing. The majority of these improvements were passed by a slim 5-4 vote in the nine-man Council. Any decision by Cambridge voters either to reelect the five Councilmen favoring Plan E or to discard managerial government should be made with regard to the merits or demerits of the system and not because of the truculent howls of frustrated politicians...