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With the use of the post-war admission tactics of weighing serious interest, secondary-school achievement, and war-time experience for veterans' entrance, there are some Radcliffe girls who had no college training before coming to Cambridge. Millicent Rose Tag-von Stein, Radcliffe '50, was working in a Los Angeles bank before the war, trying to save enough money for a college education. The twenty-three year old ex-Corporal had patiently snapped greenbacks, balanced ledgers, and rolled up coins, waiting for the time she could give up a cozy cage for an overheated classroom...
...Nothing can strengthen peace better than consistent opposition to aggression and oppression, in internal and international affairs alike, and clear, frank, and consistent loyalty to the principles of individual freedom and political liberty," Dallying said. He maintained that "two paramount facts" stand out in the Soviet post-war policy: (1) the reversal to its traditional, pre-war trends, which he termed anti-British; and (2) the unexpected difficulties in shifting Russian public opinion back to the old "schemes and concepts," after the policy of friendliness to the allied powers displayed during the war...
...credit side," there was general confidence among the people in leadership; great military strength in Europe and Asia; a forceful strategic position on the "whole conditional land mass;" the alliances with the west "whose durability and value under post-war stress remained to be tested, and a speeding up of industrialization which "would eventually pay dividends...
...present time by the Soviet government--and served as opposition deputy in the Moscow Soviet from 1917 to 1921. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg. Since coming to this country in 1940, he has published four books--"Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy 1939-1942," "Russia and Post-war Europe," "The Real Soviet Russia," and "The Big Three...
...Brunswick's last service was a wartime job, just as her job is now a post-war job. As a Coast Guard barracks, the old hotel ago, had become a shabby, bare, dirty building, badly in need of new wiring and plumbing in places, as ell as a complete paint job. Kemtoned throughout in the interior, the rooms have been transformed by Harvard into green, yellow, and rose-colored suites; wiring was double-checked, new piping was installed; windows and doors were repaired, and the heating system was prepared for a New England winter...