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...than any the Crimson has faced this year. Brown has a tendency to play rough bruising soccer--not entirely within the rules. If officials are not careful in a Brown game, it often gets away from them. This occurred in the Bruin-UConn contest Oct. 30, when a full-scale riot developed on the field...
Another important construction need is for new animal quarters. The last such building, completed in 1945, was out-grown the day the animals moved in, and with the large-scale utilization of animals in medicine today, adequate housing for the School's animals becomes more important than ever...
Under the wan October sun, Budapest had the appearance of a city ravaged by a full-scale war. The streets were choked by rubble and glass, dangling ends of streetcar cables and the uprooted cobblestones and raveled steel of barricades. The air was full of the fine, powdery dust of shell-chipped brick and mortar. Soviet dead in scores lay in grotesque postures beside burned-out and still smoldering hulks of tanks, armored cars, self-propelled guns. Men in white coats moved from corpse to corpse sprinkling snow-white lime which transformed the dead into marblelike statuary. Where possible, rebel...
...find out for certain whether Jolliffe's hopes and reasoning were right, New York City's Health Commissioner Leona Baumgartner announced a full-scale test. Men of 50 to 55 who have never had a heart attack, and men under 50 who have recently had one, will enroll in an Anti-Coronary Club. After exhaustive physical examinations, up to 5,000 volunteers will pledge themselves to abide by Dr. Jolliffe's diet rules. Within five years, Dr. Baumgartner hoped, there would be enough evidence to show whether they actually have fewer heart attacks than their fellows...
...Liberal News Chronicle (circ. 1,441,438) called his decision "folly on the grand scale," said: "There can be no further confidence in a man who has brought his country to such a dangerous state of ignominy and confusion." Boomed the Labor-leaning Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,696): "There is NO treaty, NO international authority, NO moral sanction for this desperate action. This is Eden...