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...academic world for the last decade, resulting in housing plans and semesterless colleges and what not, gives no promise of dying out. Even at Harvard enough is not enough, for seemingly seven refulgent copies of the Adelon, or Liberty Hall, or the Bastille, are not sufficient to top the pyramid of reading periods and tutorial systems and courses in aerial photography. The necessity for further reform in the tutorial system indicates that the product, the graduate, of the present-day college is far from satisfactory...
Soviet is a word meaning simply "group" and the Russian parliamentary edifice is a pyramid of groups, each of which elects members to represent it in a higher group. Since the Communist Party authoritatively pervades all the groups or Soviets, even the highest, Josef Stalin as Secretary of the Party is Boss. When important decrees are issued they are signed for the Party by Stalin and for the State by chubby but earnest and intense Premier Vyacheslav Michailovich Molotov (M in the cut). His real name is Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced...
...PYRAMID OF POWER. As Red Army divisions, marching 50 men abreast, sweep across Moscow's vast Red Square, leaders of the Party and the State watch from a parapet of Nikolai Lenin's glistening black and red granite tomb. When President Roosevelt made overtures last week to the Bolsheviki (a Russian word meaning "majority") he did not write to that swart Asiatic Russian, alert Josef Stalin (see S above) because the Dictator is not head of the State, but Secretary or Leader of the Communist Party, the only party permitted to exist in Russia. Instead President Roosevelt addressed...
...then a muttered "ah." Back in the musty corridors there was a swishing sound and slowly a black object appeared. The figure walked back and forth dragging heavy objects, stopping and cringing at every stab of lightning. Eight, nine, ten lifeless emaciated bodies of human beings formed a pyramid on the floor...
...Bread will cost 1? more a loaf, According to Mr. Wallace." And he said (but you didn't), "the Bakers have promised not to pyramid...