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Cutbacks in the size of secretarial and lower echelon faculty personnel will be necessary to enable the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to soften revenue losses from an anticipated drop in student enrollment, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
...soften the snout of the menacing...
...week long, Dewey tried to soften the crushing effect of the Hanley letter (TIME, Oct. 23). There was a lot to explain away: 74-year-old, debt-ridden, half-blind Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, "humiliated, disappointed and heartsick" because he was not going to run for governor and Tom Dewey was, had written that Dewey had made him "certain unalterable and unquestionably definite propositions" to free Hanley of debt, if he would take the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator instead...
...Halt the War." The Worker got its war news from the Moscow and Pyongyang radio, reported solemnly that U.S. correspondents were trying to "soften U.S. responsibility for atrocities...
...timed pamphlet setting forth its attitude toward Western European integration (see below), the British Labor Party had gone far beyond the understandable, if disappointing, caution which the British government had so far displayed toward the Schuman Plan. Despite all of Prime Minister Clement Attlee's subsequent attempts to soften the blow, the Labor Party had finally, bluntly admitted what it had long suggested by its actions: it was dead set against any scheme of European union that was 1) not controlled by Socialists, 2) involved a sacrifice of national sovereignty, i.e., the national Socialist's sovereign right...