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Palm Sunday. Though Grant winced at the human cost, he was dogged enough to go on paying it month after month. But what the Union was losing in blood, the Confederacy was losing in ground and hope. Sherman took Atlanta, Sheridan wheeled through the Shenandoah and sent 60 miles of that fertile valley up in smoke. By the spring of 1865 Richmond fell easily, and Lee and the remnants of his army were boxed in near Appomattox Court House...
Five other Yardlings will join Goldberg in the competition for varsity manager next fall. These five other survivors of this season's freshman contest are John Carden, Leland Cole, Justin Freed, Morris Sherman, and Joseph Topjian...
...probably the longest court opinion ever written -Federal Judge Harold R. Medina last week told why he dismissed the antitrust case against 17 leading investment banking firms. The antitrust laws, he said, require proof of an agreement or conspiracy, something the Government attorneys had not shown. Wrote Medina: "The Sherman Act is not an open door through which any court or judge may pass at will in order to shape or mold the affairs of businessmen according to his own individual notions of sound economic policy . . . Unless there is some agreement, combination or conspiracy the Sherman Act is not applicable...
Spain. Three years ago, U.S. military men led by the late Admiral Forrest Sherman convinced the Truman Administration that the U.S. must have air and naval bases in Spain in order to defend Europe. But in the ensuing horse-trading, the State Department failed to put enough pressure on Franco. Last January, under new management, the State Department began to move briskly. Last week the U.S. finally got its Spanish bases...
...mountain corridor leading from the Hungarian plains to Zagreb, Rijeka and Trieste, a group of military observers and reporters from six NATO nations watched while 65,000 Yugoslavs maneuvered. Spruce and high-spirited, they were divided into an "aggressor" force and a defending force covering Zagreb. They maneuvered with Sherman tanks, trucks, jeeps, 90-mm. guns, U.S.-made F47 fighters (World War II's Thunderbolts) and British Mosquitoes, and they handled them with facility...