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...Legion's unofficial comportment was sober, its official conduct was the most irresponsible in years. After voting resolutions favoring U.M.T. a veto-less U.N., and public housing for veterans, the delegates kicked over the traces...
...highly esteemed civilization . . . destroys the very qualities which have produced it: initiative, independence, intellectual resourcefulness. A generation . . . born in confusion, suckled in tumult, reared with cars, radios, movies, comics and picture magazines, can hardly [grow up into] reflective, sober, well-rounded young people...
TIME'S Paris bureau cabled last week: "It is a sober fact that there is only a small chance that France can avoid a limited form of civil...
When Cornell starting pushing the Crimson around in the first quarter, a few of the less sober spectators though it was their own Big Red team that was losing. As courtesy to its guest, Cornell had switched from its traditional colors to white jerseys, with the Crimson wearing red. Harvard will do the same for the Ithacans next fall in the Stadium...
...Beirut, sober-sided Stephen Penrose expects to soft-pedal his Arab views. (His first act last week: a cable for money in behalf of 70 Palestinian students whose funds had been cut off.) He hopes to make A.U.B., already famed for the statesmen and doctors among its 15,000 alumni, also a center for technical education...