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...Vigilantly guard the peace, the borders of our country and the creative work of our people [against] . . . the bandit interventionists in Korea!" The evening before, in the Bolshoi Theater, a select audience of top-level comrades & commissars heard Politburocrat Nikolai Bulganin compare the war in Korea with the civil war in Russia when the Allies unsuccessfully intervened against the Bolsheviks. Accusing the U.S. of instigating World War III with the aim of destroying the Soviet Union, Bulganin keynoted: "The Soviet people are able to defend . . . their homeland . . . with guns in hand...
...first job of the architect will be to select a site for the building. Among the locations under consideration are the Business School parking lot, the tennis courts behind Morgan Hall, and the lot left vacant by the recently razed temporary veterans' housing project...
...Sample from a recent select-the-best phrase question: "In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot unfold the whole web of our existence; we must 1) winnow the wheat from the chaff, 2) pick out the single threads, 3) scrap the flotsam and jetsam, 4) isolate the relevant factors, 5) distinguish between the warp and the woof." Students who ticked off No. 2 got it right...
Representatives in each dormitory will review the original songs and select one or two, Rachel Mellinger '52, chairman for the fest, announced yesterday. Two copies of the words should be submitted a week before the contest, although last minute entries may also be accepted...
...Select the description which correctly identifies this personality...