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Right now there is no grade race, no elite, indeed no certainty as to whether there will be any colleges at all once draft quotas really begin to pinch the local boards. If Congress does not specify a uniform draft policy for the nation, but merely renews the local option provisions of the present bill, there will be something akin to chaos in American colleges within the next year...
...recent Kalimpong acquisition is the Young Men's Buddhist Association. It was modeled after the Y.M.C.A. by its founder, former British Army Colonel John Ryan, now a Buddhist priest. Ryan, who pinch-hits as American propagandist, giving weekly showings of U.S. Information Service movies in the town hall, embraces the Hinayana or southern variety of Buddhism...
...according to Morgan, the pinch is tighter than over. Though Shoemaker has again agreed to print the annual, House men must subscribe $250 before production can start. The book will then be distributed in the spring, at a price...
After all the worry about materials shortages, it looked last week as if the businessman's worst pinch would be in manpower. In October, the Commerce Department reported, employment was up to 61.7 million, and unemployment was down to 1,900,000 (v. 2,300,000 in September), close to the alltime low of 1,600,000 in 1948. In more than one-third of 150 areas that it surveyed, said the Department, companies expanding to handle defense orders found it almost impossible to hire new help...
...able to stay in business." In Detroit, the used-car capital, prices were down an average of $300, with most of the decline occurring last week. Even at that, sales were slow. Though the used-car lots were hit the hardest, new-car salesmen were also feeling the pinch. With the slump in used-car prices, dealers were forced to slash their trade-in allowances. One Hudson dealer in Detroit who had sold 30 cars two weeks ago last week sold just five...