Word: roomfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Muscle. But nothing was giving. Five weeks of strike-shrouded, ill-tempered negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal operators had only increased their distaste for each other. The northern and western operators walked out of the bargaining room in disgust last week, virtually inviting the U.S. Government to step in. Lewis apparently still hoped to stall the negotiations somehow until Phil Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers settled their strike with the steel industry...
Hard-bitten General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had taken the witness stand before the tense audience in the House Armed Services Committee room. Infantryman Bradley began to read his statement, which he had handwritten without help from public-relations experts, in his quarters at Fort Myer...
...Balance of the Bomb. When Omar Bradley finished his biting, indignant statement there was stunned silence in the committee room. In charging head down into the middle of the scrimmage he had given a final, climactic exhibition of the unseemly personal antagonisms which had split the nation's military chiefs. From a military standpoint he had all but blasted the Navy admirals' case. And before the week was out, torpedoed by the testimony of other non-Navy men, the Navy's arguments were little more than just afloat...
Coach Hal Ulen's swimmers are also working now in the Blockhouse, but not in the pool. The varsity is spending most of its time on the boxing room mats, undergoing doses of Ulen's special muscle exercises for an hour daily. Regular pool workouts open in about a week, although there are now some individual pool workouts...
Seniors will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the Cabot Game Room to find out whether or not they will go through with the proposed all-college yearbook. Plans for the forthcoming senior weekend are also on the agenda...