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Last week, in his efforts to stave off this eventuality, Petrillo had tangled himself up in the works of the canned-music business with the bellicose ingenuity of an octopus in a pea thresher...
From Yuri Zhukov, Pravda's expert on the U.S., Russian women got the party line on the New Look. Longer skirts for U.S. women, Zhukov reported, were a desperate effort of industrialists to bolster the shaky American economy and stave off depression. He wrote: "There is no trick left that American merchants have not resorted to in their striving to sell goods...
...Dallas' Cotton Bowl, All-America Doak Walker celebrated his 21st birthday by helping Southern Methodist to a two-touchdown lead. Then Walker & Co. spent the rest of the game trying to stave off Penn State, whose subs seemed to work harder than the seniors. The score: S.M.U. 13, Penn State...
Last March, in an effort to stave off Congressional investigations, frequently known as "witch hunts," in the civil service, President Truman issued an Executive Order making possible "loyalty tests" for some two million government employees. In addition, the Civil Service Commission was ordered to create a "review board." In the action of this board, which meets for the first time tomorrow, will lie the success or failure of the President's program. Without forceful moves on the part of the board, the examinations can easily fulfill the raucous predictions of those who are already waving their manifestos and shouting "police...
...former will be a last resort. Nearly every other major eastern college has hiked its tuition already, but Harvard's huge endowment has enabled it to maintain. its twenty-year-old rates. The Business and Medical Schools, however, have jumped their tuition, and in an effort to stave off similar rises in the College and other Schools, President Conant appealed to the Alumni last June for an endowment increase in the neighborhood of $50 million. On the result of his appeal depend future tuition rates...