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...During its first years, S.U.I.'s entire faculty consisted of three professors. Its course ran only 16 weeks, and its tuition was set at the ludicrous figure of $4. Even after it inherited the state capitol building when the government moved to Des Moines, it barely managed to scrape along. In 1858 it closed its doors for two years because of lack of funds, and in 1862 it was still facing such financial problems as authorizing the janitor to "purchase a dog at a cost not exceeding the sum of $5 to assist him in keeping the yard clear...
Arkansas. Senator John L. McClellan, 58, survived his first close scrape in twelve years by a majority of some 4,500. The runner-up, Fair-Dealing former Governor Sid McMath, 41, ran out of campaign funds; to pay for a final ad, his staff had to pass the hat around. McClellan's ally, Governor Francis Cherry, failed to win a majority. In the runoff he faces a McMath crony: hawk-nosed Orval Faubus, 43, former state-highway director, a self-educated, match-chewing mountaineer...
...France fails? Said a cynic: "The old gang will come back. Indo-China will still be lost, because as a nation we aren't really ready to fight for Indo-China, and our allies aren't ready to fight if we aren't. EDC might scrape through, more likely be blocked. The Americans and British will rearm the Germans anyway, which we will be bitter about but will accept. France will still be rich enough not to go bankrupt, or important enough so that the U.S. won't let her go bankrupt...
Control of the purse-strings is undeniably one of the Dean of the Faculty's greatest powers. If he is determined to defeat a proposal, he can claim that the budget will not stand an extra strain. Or, if he favors a new plan, he will try to scrape up the money somehow. While Provost Buck was urging the Bender Plan on the Faculty, he was also arranging for $1,000,000 from the Allston Burr bequest to finance the program. It was hard for even the most dubious to argue against a profferred million dollars...
...days of 1943 it hit him with a bang. His radio told of "heavy babies in [sector] Anton-Quelle-eight," and Knoke saw some 300 Liberators, "like a great bunch of grapes, shimmering in the sky." He attacked head on and got the surprise of his life. "I almost scrape [one] fat belly as I dive past. Then I am caught in the slipstream, buffeted about so violently that ... I wonder if my tailplane has been shot away . . . Damn all this metal...