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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day a majority of the C.I.O Packinghouse Workers' strikers around the country voted to surrender to the companies' terms. This week most of the 80,000 strikers trudged back to work-for the 9?-an-hour increase they had rejected at the strike's start 69 days before (TIME, May 24). For about 14,000 others the strike dragged on, pending settlement of other differences...
...Brilliant Parades . . ." Any briefing on the state of the world in the spring of '48 must start with the way the vast battle between Communism and democracy is going. There could be no doubt that Communism had suffered setbacks. It had been stopped in Western Europe when it failed to wreck France's economy and lost the Italian elections. It had been slowed down, at least, in Greece, where the Red guerrillas had not scored a major success all winter. It had been, forced to watch while the Marshall Plan became reality...
...directive he had been given was clear-to obliterate Japan's capacity to make war, and to start the country on the road to becoming a peaceful and democratic nation. The first months after the landings were a wonderful achievement. The Japanese army, navy and air force were liquidated without a shot fired...
Mind v. Brain. Schizophrenia (split personality) is probably the commonest form of insanity. Where does it start, in the mind or in the brain? Most psychiatrists think schizophrenia is faulty functioning of the mind. On the basis of postmortem studies of ten patients with schizophrenia, Philadelphia's Nathaniel W. Winkelman came to the contrary conclusion that the disease should be considered organic: there are, he reported, changes in the brain that can be seen under the microscope. He found, for instance, a decrease in ganglion cells, and an unusual amount of fat in the cells. Most of his subjects...
...Yard ceremonies, climaxing a week of Commencement pageantry, get underway at 9 o'clock with the Solomn Ritual. Under their respective marshals, all candidates will assemble in front of Thayer Hall at 9:30 o'clock to start the traditional march to Tercentenary Theater, on the steps of Memorial Church, where the Class will hold its exercises...