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...lockers. Last week, taking advantage of congressional permission granted two years ago in the Universal Military Training & Service Act, the Army finally decided to allow all officers' and NCOs' clubs to sell hard liquor over the bar. Though it admonished commanders to "encourage abstinence, enforce moderation and punish overindulgence," and forbade bar drinks for soldiers under 21, last week's directive promptly brought a protest from Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. "More than 20,000 ex-uniformed alcoholics have passed through veterans' hospitals in the last three years...
...Taft-Hartley Act. In 1950, running for re-election in Ohio, he administered organized labor one of its most far-reaching political defeats. Union leaders thought they could beat him. In no state campaign had labor ever let loose such a concerted attack, determined as it was to punish the author of the Taft-Hartley Act, which they called the Slave Labor Act. Taft won by a majority almost twice the size of what he himself had predicted. It might have marked the high tide of labor's political influence. In any case, the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. have...
Director Vicas, who is Russian-born, heard the soldier's story and then asked him: "Boy, have you thought what you've done? If you go back, they'll punish you, certainly. But this way, you'll never again see your mother or your friends...
...with the truce seemingly so near, were the Reds still attacking so fiercely on the battlefront? U.N. observers could think of several Communist motivations: 1) to wipe out a discomforting U.N. salient and get more territory for themselves; 2) to gain prestige in the closing hours; 3) to punish the ROKs-or rather to punish Rhee by bloodying the ROKs-and convince them they could get nowhere against Communist power if they fought alone...
...being held throughout the Soviet Union. Pravda in hand, party workers and activists were haranguing the workers and peasants. Lesser party members quickly picked up the line. Said the director of Moscow's Hammer & Sickle factory: "We . . . demand that the severe hand of Soviet justice should mercilessly punish this freak deviationist." Said girl Plasterer Tamara Demicheva in Evening Moscow: "It was with enormous indignation and wrath that we, the youth of the University construction project, learned of the repulsive activities of the despised hireling of foreign people...