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Ichiro Hatoyama paid scant attention to his own Occupation demerit, the fact that Douglas MacArthur had purged him from public life for "ultra nationalism . . . supporting aggression . . . duplicity." Later Hatoyama remarked: "One American told me-it may have been flattery-that my purge was the Occupation's greatest mistake...
...censured, might bolt the G.O.P. to head a third party in 1956. Joe's scramble for martyrdom and his appeal over the Senate to the people were cited as evidence of the walkout possibility. It was fairly obvious that Wallace Bennett was one Re publican who held scant fear about Joe's defection...
Holworthy, while not doing so well in cross country, took the freshman touch football championship by winning ten straight games. The team, paced by Alvah Crocker and Bob Cleary, averaged 49.9 points per game, and limited the opposition to a scant ten point average. On the basis of this record, Holworthy is in second position in the intramural race...
...bite." The major error in his reasoning is the idea that a weapons stalemate will not occur for a number of years. Not only is it impossible to make an accurate count of armaments, but in an era of atomic platitude a slight advantage in weapons provides a nation scant protection against destruction of its own cities. The question, then, is whether the United States can prevent the present stalemate from channeling into a Soviet victory...
...Council realizes that the present system encourages many candidates for the honor of the Permanent Committee, while few are willing to try for the scant prestige and harder work of the Class Day Committee, elected a few weeks later. We have advocated combining the two elections. The twelve highest vote-getters, the well-known seniors, would make up the Permanent Committee, which contacts class members for projects in later years. The next two men would be on the Class Day Committee. And in order to insure the coordination needed in planning the Senior Week, the last eight representatives...