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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more surprised by the speed and scope of the Atlantic pact negotiations than by the bare fact of its creation. In 1927 Stalin had postulated the inevitability of two hostile worlds. "In the course of further development of international revolution," he said, "two centers will form on a world scale . . . The struggle between these two centers for the possession of the world economy will decide the fate of capitalism and Communism in the whole world...
...some backwoods areas of Colombia, arguments usually end in a draw-of guns or machetes. During election campaigns, such bloody incidents have been used by politicos to incite violence on a national scale. As their hottest congressional campaign in years moved into high gear last week, sober Colombians were dismayed to see the vicious old cycle repeating itself. In three months, the number of murders attributed to politics had risen to 40. Warned staid El Tiempo: "[Such] violence is the worst thing that can happen in a democratic country...
...unfairness shows up in the case of the student who gets three B-plusses and a C-plus for his term's work. When a percentage scale is set up parallel to the letter grade scale and letters are translated into their numerical equivalents (a process which many section men use in arriving at their letter grades) these grades average out to be about an 85. Yet, this man is placed in Rank Group IV. Another student gets four B-minuses, which is about an 81, and he ends up in Group III, which gives him Dean's List privileges...
...Rankin has both major parties in a very nasty position. Democratic leaders cannot require their forces to oppose the pension bill, unless they want a full-scale mutiny on their hands. The GOP is similarly tied, although Republicans can hardly deny some satisfaction at the sight of the Administration taking a licking. Two veterans' organizations have had the courage to fight Rankin's bill; but the efforts of the American Veterans Committee and the Amvets cannot match the elephantine maneuvers of the American Legion, which has blessed the measure with all the prestige of around 4,000,000 Legionnaires...
Community Service members are also planning a large-scale bridge game, "on-the-spot" portraits, merchandise booths supplied gratis by local stores, and a student art work salon with purchasable paintings...