Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Bevin's ideal will be partially fulfilled. An agreement will be signed in London abolishing visa requirements for French and British citizens who cross the English Channel for short visits in France or Britain. Formal negotiations with The Netherlands and Belgium will probably come next...
...become an architect. At the Bandung Technical Institute he got a degree in civil engineering, which entitles him to put Ir. in front of his name (Ir. is a contraction of ingenieur, Dutch for engineer). Soekarno's architectural career was as short as his professional title. He designed a few Chinese homes and was commissioned to do a Moslem mosque (most Java mosques are hideous tin-roofed stucco monstrosities, in contrast to the lovely ruins of the vanquished Hindu temples...
Twelve U.S. newsmen who junketed south last week to publicize L.A.V.'s (Linea Aeropostal Venezolano) new Constellation service from New York to Caracas got an extra dividend. They saw the tail end of a real (if short-lived) South American revolt, complete with bombs and bullets...
...short run, tuition rises would place the non-veteran who buys his education with private funds at a greater disadvantage. And the veteran student, living on a fixed income and confronted with the same high living costs facing professors, would have the choice of dropping education or badgering Congress for greater financial aid. In the light of past experience, the Congress would soon see that economic justice and political expediency called for greater payments to the vets. The breach between the veteran and non-veteran would be even further widened, and a new group would be dissatisfied...
...whistle sounded to end the hard-fought second frame two fast goals within 20 seconds of each other by center Dave Farrell pulled the Crimson to a 3 to 3 deadlock. A marker by B.U.'s Clopeck at 1:03 of the final period sent the Terriers into a short-lived lead, but at 4:11 Sears dented the nets for the Crimson on an assist from behind the goal by Sid Greeley to knot the score...