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...Cubans of every class save the clergy, who remained to fight Castro in their own way. Now it was the Roman Catholic Church's turn to go, and Castro and the Communists felt strong enough to take on the church. Denounced as "Falangists," insulted and jailed, forced to obtain "work permits" to say Mass, Cuba's foreign-born clergy -500 priests and 2,000 nuns-started pulling up stakes. One group of 300 nuns sailed away on the Spanish liner Cova-donga; another 28 found space on the ferry to West Palm Beach; others scrambled for seats...
...University is still trying to buy the Cambridge MTA yards as the site for a badly needed Tenth House. But despite generous purchase prices and offers to use part of the land for taxable ventures, Massachusetts Hall has been unable to obtain State consent to buy the property...
...However, we should not forget one lesson we learned from recent events. Whenever American prestige is to be committed on a major scale, we must be willing to commit enough power to obtain our objective even if all of our intelligence estimates prove wrong. Putting it bluntly, we should not start things unless we are prepared to finish them...
...Committee, after seeing the President yesterday afternoon, urged that the University make plates available for seniors who wish to obtain diplomas in the former script from a private firm with names printed by the University's engrosser...
Members of the Army ROTC unit also questioned the recruiting practices used to obtain the 60 cadets who will march at Concord. Students claimed that the commanders were unable to obtain enough volunteers and thus posted a list of unit members who would attend the exercises. The students claimed that anyone who did not march was threatened with ten demerits...