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Grimbel received a directive from Air University Headquarters last, summer which cut the Yale quota from 225 to 158. He wrote the 230 men enrolled in the course, informing them of the cut and requesting that those who wished to drop out inform him personally...
According to Fund drive officials, who contacted the Band, it is hoped that the telecast will raise the necessary cash to make up this year's quota, via pledges phoned in during the three hour long sessions. Both WBZ and WNAC will carry the show...
...There is much evidence to support this theory. It has become more or less accepted doctrine in the West that "time works for the Russians," in the sense that if they only sit back, let the Communist parties abroad conspire away, and rely on the West's usual quota of blunders, they will eventually get what they want. This is a half-truth, at best. In the past year the U.S. and its allies have shown dangerous weakness and confusion, and the Russians have made some gains, but the Kremlin may feel that they are not big enough...
...Minute to Zero has the regulation quota of action scenes and combat heroics. One sequence, in which Mitchum orders the shelling of a civilian refugee column that harbors Communist guerrillas, was found objectionable by the Department of Defense. The producers of the picture refused to eliminate the scene, and it remains the only unusual feature in a formula film...
...back countries of the Moslem world, the men who can afford it still keep the Allah-granted quota of four wives. Unable to read, forbidden to attend schools, or to listen to the deliberations of the males, millions of Islamic women remain quietly in their houses, unaware that there is any world beyond the narrow one visible through the slits in their veils...