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...last refugees took their leave of Seoul, both the week and the year came to an end. Here & there, there were signs of a celebration. In the skies the bright winter moon was waning; U.S. officers guessed that as the nights darkened, the Reds would renew their attack...
...column and to boycott Adam Hat Stores, Inc., which sponsors Pearson's Sunday-night radio broadcast (estimated audience: 10 million). Last week Washington Columnist Doris Fleeson, an old friend of Pearson's, broke the news that McCarthy had won a round: Adam Hats had decided not to renew Pearson's $5,000-a-week contract when it expires...
Gregory "Gus" Zitrides resigned yesterday as head football coach at Brown after it became apparent the University Athletic Council would not renew his contract...
Princeton decided to dismiss an assistant professor who had been indicted for contempt of Congress; Columbia not only denied permission to speak to Howard Fast, a left-wing author, but also refused to renew the charter of the college's chapter of the Labor Youth League. Princeton would offer no reason for its action; Columbia banned Fast because he was "not objective," and denied the Youth League a charter "because of its affiliation with subversive parent organization...
...Sample from a recent select-the-best phrase question: "In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot unfold the whole web of our existence; we must 1) winnow the wheat from the chaff, 2) pick out the single threads, 3) scrap the flotsam and jetsam, 4) isolate the relevant factors, 5) distinguish between the warp and the woof." Students who ticked off No. 2 got it right...