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...fall, the University stands astride the conquered problems of the immediate postwar veteran influx and contemplates the coming problems of readjustment. Pausing only for a quick glance backward on a nearly finished job, Wilbur, J. Bender's 'Report On The Veteran" in the current Alumni Bulletin throws a penetrating searchlight onto the matter of Harvard, the veteran, and the future. As Counsellor for Veterans, Mr. Bender has ponted clearly to the problems which, as the next Dean of the College, he will have a major share in solving...
Panama. About 130 temporary bases were constructed outside the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone. Most of these bases (radar, searchlight, antiaircraft posts) have been returned to Panama. But the U.S. is faced with a terrific problem in defending the Big Ditch from the overcrowded air fields within the Canal Zone. Therefore, the U.S. has retained some of the outlying air bases, pointing out that though the fighting is over, the peace treaties have not been signed. Panama's President Enrique A. Jiménez has indicated that he understands the problem. But some Panamanians are piqued by the fact...
Firemen called ceaselessly above the roar of engines and the throb of the pumps: "Don't jump! Don't jump!" A latticework of ladders rose into the searchlight beams which roamed the building's face. Seven more people felt the terror, escaped the heat by diving and dying...
Uniform of the Night. The proceedings would throw a legal searchlight on some, but not all, of the dark questions asked by hundreds of next of kin in angry letters to the Navy since the "Indy" was lost. The court-martial should show whether McVay, who was born to Navy tradition (his father is a retired admiral), was justified in steaming on a straight course at only 17 knots, especially as the ship had no submarine detection gear...
...minute he finished his last searchlight, he walked a few hundred yards to the final washer assembly and was back at peacetime work. The whole 160,000-man G.E. organization from president to foremen to typists had pointed for this moment. Like other key men, Emil had to be reconverted before most of the 32 other U.S. appliance manufacturers got going, and before the customers beat down the doors...