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...rules following the Yale plan seems to be the logical solution. Yalies are now allowed to entertain women in their rooms until 11 p.m. on Saturdays and on Fridays when there are no classes the following day. Such a plan is a sensible extension of traditional student freedom. But prompt action is necessary here if the problem is not to be side-tracked once more...
...Senate, worried about what science has wrought, began hearings last week on three bills to support and control rainmakers. Most fervent witness in favor of prompt control was Robert McKinney, chairman of the New Mexico Economic Development Commission. Most of New Mexico, he said, is infested with fly-by-night commercial rainmakers who seed the sky irresponsibly with large amounts of silver iodide. Hired by drought-plagued ranchers and farmers, they are making lots of money, but their clumsy, uncoordinated efforts are producing little rain. Experts have often pointed out that too much silver iodide may prevent rain instead...
...atom bomb should hit a big U.S. city, the lives of more than 100,000 injured might be saved by prompt transfusions of blood, blood plasma or proper plasma substitutes. Under present conditions, nearly all these people would die. There is not enough blood, plasma or substitutes. Researchers are now looking frantically for acceptable and plentiful substitutes for plasma. Most injuries caused by atomic bombs (wounds, burns, radiation damage) result in loss of fluids from the blood vessels. The blood does not circulate properly, and the tissues, including the brain, do not get the oxygen and other supplies they need...
...generals that the Korean attack was an act of aggression that had to be met, that if it went unopposed the idea of collective security would collapse. The U.S. went into the Security Council with its mind made up, and with no Russians around to cast a veto, won prompt agreement that the U.S. and U.N. should intervene...
...Yalu, Douglas MacArthur issued a confident communiqué: "The United Nations massive compression envelopment in North Korea against the new Red armies operating there is now approaching its decisive effort ... If successful, this should for all practical purposes end the war, restore peace and unity to Korea, enable the prompt withdrawal of United Nations military forces, and permit the complete assumption by Korea of full sovereignty and international equality. It is that for which we fight...