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Although the watered-down Left policies of moderate Premier Camille Chau-temps have been strongly endorsed by French voters at their local polls (TIME. Oct. 25), the Government set out last week to nip anti-Left revolt which may be budding in North Africa. Many of this colony's landed proprietors, while French in citizenship, are of Spanish. Italian. South American or even German birth. Almost to a man they are more conservative than the Communist. Socialist and moderate Radical Socialist parties which in coalition support the Chautemps Cabinet. Notoriously German are many tough mercenaries of the famed French...
...Marco Polo Bridge started the present war in China. By last week Japan had spent or appropriated $737,000,000, had landed 200,000 men in China-almost its entire standing army-and suffered untold thousands of casualties to prosecute that war. The war that was intended merely to nip off the Peiping section and possibly rich "model" Shansi Province, Shantung and Suiyuan, now covered China's entire 2,150 mi. coastline...
...Housatoute, there were about ten people cheering for Harvard in the 150-pound regatta; it was a heart-breaker, and even the rabidest Eli cheerers had to admit it would have been nip and tuck at the finish except for those crabs...
...boys gathered on the half-mile pony track anext the Charles, and John Fugard of Evanston, Illinois, stepped out with "Butch". If was nip and tuck for the first half-mile, but Fritz Iwasko, the flash from Detroit, began to widen a considerable...
...nip and tuck fight, in which the last point of the last game could have thrown victory one way or another, Dorson nosed out Bernard Ridder of Princeton...