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When Matthew's leave was up, sympathetic superior officers cut through red tape and shipped Benita back to Tokyo. There, British headquarters felt less benign, announced that it would launch a prompt investigation of Mrs. Lassetter's escapade. But neither Benita nor the Fusiliers were much abashed. "What are they going to investigate?" asked one young officer. "It was purely a family matter...
...these first few months the CRIMSON's weekly fashion column was solving the freshman's sartorial problems. "If you are interested in any question of dress or etiquette," the column stated, "write the 'Well Dressed Man,' care of the Harvard CRIMSON and you letter will receive prompt and careful attention...
...made a desperate effort to emasculate the bill with amendments, was beaten only 135 to 103. Not all the debate was pitched to Rayburn's appeal to selfishness; Republican Congressman Walter Judd, onetime medical missionary in China, said: "This is a case where what our hearts prompt us to do coincides with what is in the interest of our country, world order and peace, to do." The vote for final passage...
Spoiled Experiment. The results were startling and prompt. It took only a few weeks for people in the enriched rice zone to feel better, and in three months the death rate showed a drop. Then enriched rice began to be bootlegged across the line to the control zone, where it gummed up the experiment but saved lives...
Gilbert M. Eisner '53, Blood Drive Chairman, reminded donors to be prompt in keeping their appointments--sent out in the mail last week--and to change any conflicting appointments by calling P.B.H. in advance...