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Again the Eighth. The second factor in the victory was a sneak by important armored and infantry units of the Eighth Army. They hustled from their dormant sector on the southeastern end of the line up to the First Army's toughest sector, the Medjerda Valley approach to Tunis...
...weeks ago a council of southeastern Governors meeting in Florida (TIME, April 5) raised the perennial charge. Last week New York's trim Governor Thomas E. Dewey denied it in a memorandum to ICC, said that any change in rates would hurt New York's manufacturers. Said he: "New York State can only view such a result with the greatest concern...
...Florida's stucco State Capitol last week, the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the great American roughneck, looked down on a scene that would have delighted his old frontiersman's eyes. Assembled there was the Southeastern Governors' Conference. Ostensible subject: the South's perennial freight-rate problem. Actual subject: the political rebellion seething below the Mason Dixon line...
...Oklahoma Aggies are outreached in one respect by University of Kentucky's Wildcats. Kentucky has as coach big, burly Adolph Frederick Rupp, a Kansan who learned his basketball from Phog Allen. Under Rupp's tutelage, Kentucky has won the Southeastern Conference basketball championship six times in ten years, last spring defeated mighty Illinois in the Eastern play-offs for the national collegiate championship...
...have courses in the Chinese and Japanese languages and their literature, history and art, but there is still little to be learned in American colleges about social and economic conditions in Asia, where more than half the people of the world live. There is still almost nothing taught about southeastern Asia and modern India, and yet, apart from the obvious military and political need for more objective information about regions which have been brought close to us by modern trade and transportation, there is much of intellectual interest, to be discovered from the experience of these ancient civilizations. In China...