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Unilateral. In Copenhagen, Danish authorities, trying to keep down unnecessary imports, cut the quota of British roller skates to 40 tons, got the shipment, found all skates were for the left foot...
...inequity in the department's move hits the entire group of ex-G.I.'s who, by luck or accident of overseas shipment, could not return to Cambridge until September of this year. Before that time, all departments of the College, History included, had waived both general and divisional examinations for non-honors candidates who had been away from the College for two years and who planned to return for only one. But this last installment of historically-minded veterans found, after enrolling two months ago, that their department had veered from the path taken by all other divisions...
...psychoneurotics (1,875,000 rejected in the draft, 600,000 discharged after induction). Four-fifths of those discharged had cracked up under training-camp discipline before they saw any fighting. General Cooke found many a plain & fancy coward: at Massachusetts' Camp Edwards, where 2,800 reluctant soldiers facing shipment to battlefronts were imprisoned in a stockade, he discovered that, to avoid going, men threw away their false teeth, hid in coal bins, jumped off harbor boats, paid up to $1,000 to civilian doctors to tell them how to fake illness. But he also found "psychopathic personalities," and among...
Since the establishment of the American Book Center, over a year ago, the University has collected for shipment to Washington over 25 tons of high-caliber research matter, he added...
...zone. Next the Communists threatened a strike of all public utilities, including power plants. Knowing that southern Korea has no rice reserves, they demanded that the U.S. authorities release "hoarded stores" for distribution among workers. They also spread rumors that the U.S. authorities had confiscated all rice for shipment to Japan...