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...called Pag-asa (Tagalog for hope), he toured the islands, dropping in unannounced on one army outpost after another; in regions Pag-asa could not reach, he traveled by car or carabao cart. He gave the soldiers better food, better quarters, promise of advancement. At one post he went out with a patrol to do a little Huk-shooting himself, and handed a battlefield commission to a sergeant who bagged three. At another post he found soldiers sleeping without blankets...
Comes the Ax. When Bertie dumped his niece, Bazy Miller, as editor last spring and took personal charge of his Washington outpost (TIME, April 16), his new staff gurgled with good cheer. After all, they said, "no matter what you may think of McCormick's policies," he is a good man to work for. Their cheer was shortlived. Instead of pay boosts, there were cost-trimmings and firings. Quick to go were Bazy's pets...
Earlier, speaking at Princeton, he said Harvard, Yale, and Princeton "exemplify the last outpost of private education in the world," but added "they face a trying economic period in which they must look to their alumni to help them financially...
This spirit holds men's hearts in the mow slopes long after they have left for the warmth of civilization. This spirit loosens alumni's purse strings enough to keep their outpost in the wilderness a growing, publicized center of the Spartan virtue--a healthy mind in a healthy body. This spirit nurses class rivalry back to health too, after such incidents as last weeks tug of war accident which sent six men to the hospital...
...year-old Boyden station is now, according to Bok, one of the best-equipped observatories in the Southern Hemisphere. Bok reported yesterday that a group of South Africans and Americans living in South Africa has recently agreed to assure the financial stability of the outpost...