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...Mennonites numbered nearly 7,500; today there are approximately 200,000 on the North American continent. They too, "plain people" as they call themselves, have not escaped the disease of sectarianism and schism. U.S. Mennonites are currently divided into 16 groups, including the black-clothed, buttonless, bearded Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania. Some of them still practice such ancient customs as the "holy kiss" (see cut). All of them, however, remain plain and pacifist...
There may be an indication of future trends, however, in the numerical increase of students from Central, Northern, and Southeastern Europe, which saw their representation sharply curtailed by the war. Those include, besides the seven from Germany, and six from France, one student from Greece, two from Austria, two from Czechoslovakia, one from Danzig, three from Norway, and three from the Netherlands...
Talk of the Italian customs union was immediately used by the Communists for scare stories about Western "economic expansion in central and southeastern Europe." General Clark's remark that Russian cooperation in Austria might be enforced by making a proposed U.S. loan applicable only to Austria's western zones was promptly blown up to mean a threat of "partition...
...Southeastern Conference (Alabama, Tennessee, Tulane, etc.) Georgia is proud of its loyal halfback, Charlie Trippi, who came back to work for alma mammy at a rumored $5,000, plus apartment, auto and incidental considerations; the pros had offered...
...what the General was talking about. Only one, Coach Jess Neely of Rice, conceded that "the General might be right." The black market in footballers was so open that officials from 200 colleges who recently met in Chicago to consider and perhaps deplore it got nowhere. Down in the Southeastern Conference (Mississippi State, Georgia Tech, etc.), where so-called "grants-in-aid" to players are legal, hijacking of players from the two service academies was made not only legal but attractive. Though college football players are usually allowed only three years of varsity play, the Conference decided not to count...