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...season gloom was, however, suddenly dispelled by a highly successful trip South, during the spring recess. The varsity won three of four games played on this tour, and several new men performed with a competence not before suspected of them. When the squad returned to Cambridge, hopes for it had risen so high that even an Eastern League pennant seemed within the bounds of possibility...
...Talked generalities in a half-hour chat in Manhattan with United Steelworkers President David McDonald, who dropped by during a recess in the critical contract negotiations with Big Steel...
GENEVA--The Big Four foreign ministers agreed last night on a two-day break in their talks to allow statesmen to attend the funeral of John Foster Dulles in Washington. The conference will be in recess Wednesday and Thursday...
Damaged Morale. Doubtless the Senate will eventually confirm Strauss in his post; not since 1925 has the Senate refused to approve a presidential Cabinet appointment.* But meanwhile, the delay is damaging morale at the Commerce Department (where Strauss has been serving under a recess appointment since last November) and harshly punishing a man whom the U.S. has reason to remember with gratitude for his 1949 fight, as a member of the AEC, to get an H-bomb program under way. Strauss won the fight-against the opposition of his fellow AECommissioners and the physicists of the AEC's General...
...China, thus earning Washington's warm approval. He coolly denied strife-torn Newfoundland (TIME, March 23) the lavish federal aid that the province wants (leading Liberal Premier Joseph Smallwood to cry "betrayal'' and drape provincial buildings in crape). Then, as the House droned toward Easter recess, weary John Diefenbaker caught a Saskatchewan-bound jet transport for a few days off on the anniversary of his monumental election victory a year ago this week...