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...Attention!" called Colonel Walter R. Graham, Landsberg's U.S. commandant. Blobel stiffened; the hangman and his assistants slipped a black hood over Blobel's head, adjusted the heavy noose. A priest intoned a prayer. The trap sprang open with a clatter...
...face of these snowballing attacks, the school board began to weaken in its support of Superintendent Goslin. Finally, while he was in Manhattan to attend a national school meeting, it sent him a telegram asking him to resign. With that, the pro-Goslin forces sprang into action, but it was too late. The board insisted that Goslin must go. "He didn't have the right rapproach," explained one member. "That's the word, 'rapproach' to the grassroots problem...
Tedder last fall succeeded the late Jan Christian Smuts in the honorary post of chancellor at Cambridge, the university from which Harvard sprang...
...universities in the U.S. which depend on their own resources for survival. Last week most of them were shaking in their boots. One reason had been building up over the last decade: a combination of mounting costs (up 70% since 1941) and dwindling endowments. Another was a question which sprang up with the beginning of the war in Korea and struck at the heart of the college population: How many students will the colleges lose to the armed services...
Fear & Courage. A good deal of such anti-MacArthurism sprang from understandable fear that forthright action against Communist China might provoke a third World War and send Russian divisions marching across Europe. Only a few voices in the British press were ready to say that this fear, however understandable, had inspired an unfair judgment...