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After the C-54 had flown revealingly close to the plane-packed airfields of Okinawa, the flight steward broke out box lunches with sandwiches, hardboiled eggs, cake and a sweet pickle apiece. All ate well, and asked for seconds of pineapple juice-except Kawabe. He sipped a little juice, nibbled...
...last moment, the Generalissimo personally took part in the talks. He could not, he pointed out, tolerate an armed state within the state. He was the steward of China's destiny. His charge had come from the great Sun Yatsen, and he would yield nothing of the ultimate responsibility for China's government. General Chou would not budge either. In Chungking's concessions he saw no termination of "one-party dictatorship." But the political crux of the matter was that Yenan's one-party dictatorship dared not, any more than Chungking, surrender control over the military...
...week the Wanous-Brown program passed its first anniversary. Not an inkwell had yet been thrown. The classes have spread to union hiring halls, high schools, other aircraft plants. Last week labor and management were still equally enthusiastic. Said O. G. Lompe, a Douglas jig builder and C.I.O. shop steward, "Sure, we like the class. They give us the straight facts. ..." Said Supervisor Robert Kennedy, in charge of building C-47s: "Yes sir, I learned a helluva lot." Said President Donald Douglas: "Most grievances grow from misunderstanding. When we learn how to analyze and understand the other fellow...
...tall, balding Gordon Dupee, 28, research director of the University's radio office, which produces Round Table. Presumptive reasons for the blackballing: 1) Dupee is a forthright conscientious objector (though 4-F); 2) only a short time ago, as a working student, he was the club's steward. The club council insisted, however, that Applicant Dupee had been rejected simply because he is "personally objectionable." Cracked a member: "Hell, everybody in the club is objectionable to everybody else in it-and rightly...
...Austin Fish '46, chairman of the Adams House Committee, disclosed yesterday that James E. Hampton, Steward, has promised improved conditions in the dining hall. Increased leeway with ration points will make larger meat portions possible in the extensive revision...