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Against the Elements. How 84 men, or any men, lived in those waters is difficult to say. Most hung grimly to life rafts, watching their comrades washed off and under, powerless to save them...
...have done something. But Lublin's land policy has already split up many of their estates among the peasants. The landlords have gone into local administrative posts (when they played ball with Lublin), or gone to jail (when they did not). In London the Government in Exile was powerless. Premier Tomasz Arciszewski could merely growl: "We refuse to become a new Soviet Republic even under the name of 'independent Poland.'" Ex-Premier Mikolajczyk was already being denounced by Lublin as a "traitor to the Polish peasants"-a new version of the "enemy of the people," the formula...
After five and a half months of political nonentity, the practically powerless, constantly criticized Government of aging, well-meaning Premier Ivanoe Bonomi resigned last week. Several hours later Lieutenant-General of the Realm Prince Umberto was reported to have asked Ivanoe Bonomi, in the absence of any stronger candidate, to form a new Cabinet...
Eliot's V-12 football team completed its conquest of all intramural competition yesterday when it breezed by a powerless Kirkland House NROTC team 26 to 7 at Soldiers Field. At the same time that Eliot was gaining its third victory of the current campaign, the Bellboys of Lowell House were busily engaged in losing to the Adams House eleven...
...chairman of VOKS, nervously trying to turn the tide, declared that VOKS was powerless to help the correspondents, and that they should appeal to the foreign office. The correspondents retorted that they had already appealed to the foreign office. Said famed Soviet children's poet Simeon Marshak: "We are only writers here; we are just a gathering of poets; we cannot help...