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Crowds began to gather in the Square a half hour before the scheduled time of the General's appearance. High school students left their classrooms a half hour before the official afternoon recess. By 1:30, the throng was large enough to slow traffic. At that time, a sound truck plugging Governor Adlai Stevenson and operated by Walter C. Carrington '52 1L and Lawrence Erbst '51 1L was rocked and almost overturned by Eisenhower partisans as it drove through the Square. Students rocked other cars and opened the doors of a few. One trolley was derailed...
Vision & Venom. Shrewd Premier Pinay, who likes to pose as no politician, just a technician, had lasted in office seven months. But as the National Assembly prepared to convene after a three months' recess, he was in a hot fight for survival. "I have the people behind me and Parliament in front of me," Pinay often says. His opposition in Parliament-Gaullists, Communists, and to some extent, Socialists -were all crying for the head of Pinay's Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman...
Negotiators agreed to a ten-day recess, asked by the Allies, to permit full Red study of proposals...
There will also be one less day between tht end of fall examinations and registration for the spring term. Formerly two days long, the recess will be only one day this year...
...might not notice he was there, had in a surprising burst of courage demanded his Rights. The Chair had thunderously shouted him down, and Mr. Julia had disappeared. Now that the time had come to present his case, Mr. Julia was nowhere to be found. There was a brief recess consumed in the search, as sargents-at-arms, Committee members, attorneys, and delegates hunted for him; when all proved fruitless, the case opened anyway. Soon, however, looking more frightened than ever, Mr. Julia appeared, apparently from the recesses of the hotel lavatory where, some said, he had been struggling with...