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...this point Yale moved into a wide open offensive pattern and began to stall. Nervous Harvard players, trying too hard for the ball, made too many mistakes and in short order Yale restored its supremacy. A last ditch effort by Borchard (who had 21 points) and Kelley was in vain...
...SOFT RECOVERY. The mildest of the four U.S. postwar recessions brought an unexpectedly modest recovery. After hitting bottom in February, the economy turned up faster than predicted, only to stall in the summer. An upsurge in the late fall sent personal income to a record. U.S. consumers finally got over their yearlong frugality as retailers did a record Christmas business, and Detroit beamed over fourth-quarter auto sales that may even top the 1955 record of 1,700,000 cars. The year's net: not much better than...
...national organizations know better than the Communist Party, U.S.A., how to use-and abuse-the legal protections of U.S. citizenship. Thanks to the maneuvering skill of its leaders and their lawyers, the party has been able to stall off, for more than eleven years, enforcement of the 1950 Subversive Activities Control Act, which requires it to register with the Justice Department as an active agent of a foreign power. But last week the Communist Party finally ran out of time: ignoring a Nov. 20 deadline imposed by the Supreme Court, the party refused to register with the Justice Department...
...Asia's mainland, have quietly discussed a merger of the two territories in a "Malaysian" federation. Unwitting spurs to the scheme are Singapore's Red-leaning, left-wing extremists (mostly Chinese), whose rising influence threatens the regime of moderate Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and could stall Singapore's slow but steady move from British colonial status toward full independence. Fearful of chaos ahead, Malayan Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman now shares Lee's view that Singapore's Communists can be stopped only if the two territories join forces...
Rocky's opposition tried to stall the bill until next January, claiming that they had not had time to absorb and study the 38-page legislative text. But even some Democrats admitted that the bill was sound and the shelters needed. Concluded State Senate Republican Leader Walter Mahoney: "Thank God we have a Governor with the courage and vision to say. 'This is the right thing to do, and let's do it regardless of political consequences...