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...time. Shimer's students are free of the fight for classroom attention. The faculty recently cut the class-size limit down from 25 to 19, despite the fact that this would give some teachers as many as nine classes a day. The reduction was voted through without a plea for increased salary-in fact, no Shimer faculty member has asked for a raise since 1954, and two men who were offered raises this year declined so that the money could be put in the school's general fund...
...only thing was, Scranton got so busy ad-libbing that he cut his speech-and in the process, left out that wry but realistic plea for party solidarity...
Defense Attorney Arieh Rosenblum. supporting Barenblat's plea of innocence, said that his conduct was justifiable, and argued that he was acquitted of collaborationist charges after the war,, by a " Polish court. "The Jewish police." Rosenblum said, "cannot be regarded as hostile to the Jewish people. Their intention was not hostility. They did not seek to exterminate Jews; they served what they deemed the best interests of the Jewish community under the worst possible circumstances...
...song evolves from a tone of calm suggestion to one of a frantic plea. But after a highly evocative sexual passage--which cannot be transmitted to the printed page--he closes with almost defiant self-assertion...
Item. The Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, made a public plea after the blackball that negotiations be continued without French presence. This idea, which would have violated the statutes of the Market, has been attributed by persistent rumors to American instigation. A similar suggestion was made to the German Foreign Minister in an eleventh-hour note from Dean Rusk...