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...pursuing a concrete proposition a year ago when, pleading for military funds for the North Atlantic pact nations, he said: "With our allies, strong or weak as they may be, we face a long period of tension . . . We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternately press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the signatory powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution ... is born of fear and selfishness, and of such meanness that all despise it. Our rise to leadership must be attended with such courage as will ever give it first rank in the history of great actions...
Nearly 50 Cambridge and University police answered calls to the Square to quell hand-to-hand fighting which started at 11:30 p.m. when a Harvard contingent attempted to break up a Princeton pep rally in the Square. More than 2,000 persons were involved in the riot...
...Seven Indian Starters Overcome by Food Poison on Eve of Game" blared Dartmouth-style headlines in an edition actually prepared by Crimeds in Cambridge. The original New Hampshire grown copy of the Dartmouth reached the streets later in the morning--too late to quell most of the panicky Dartmouths. Scores of frat boys rushed to the coach to volunteer their services to the team...
...Navy's Admiral Denfeld and the Air Force's General Hoyt Vandenberg, spoke for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Said Missouri-born Omar Bradley, whose vivid prose is the match of Acheson's: "We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternatively press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the [North Atlantic Treaty] powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution has no apology. It is born of fear and selfishness and of such meanness that all despise...
...romantic or expressionist, as are most Crucifixions, but may rather be described as liturgical, ritualistic, learned and arcane . . . executed with great resource and command of the medium." Describing Rose as "an artist who believes in both Christ and Picasso," the Catholic Herald went out of its way to "quell any suspicion that the painting is strange and difficult because the painter is only partially acquainted with his sublime theme ... Sir Francis is a Catholic whose religion has bitten deep...