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Opening their season at 5 p.m. today, the freshman fencing team will vie with M.I.T. Marion said he particularly hoped for a good performance by the foll segment of the squad, so some of its mem-could strengthen the weak varsity foil squad next season...
...present stage of development with that of the early American colonies. Actively playing the neutrality game, however, he asserted that "capital and technical knowledge have no respect for political frontiers," and insisted that he had no reason to apologize for "the steps we have taken recently to strengthen our trade and economic relations with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China...
Novelist John C. Hawkes '47, too, should help to strengthen the pro-Miller leanings of the panel. Known for his literary psycho-sexual fantasies, Hawkes has written, among others, the much- heralded The Cannibal and, most recently, The Lime Twig...
...what it may be worth, I favor a stiff, demanding community activity for any undergraduate, or anybody else, man or woman, for that matter. It's a prime basis for social organization in a large and difficult community, a way for a man to find, test, and strengthen himself, to become an effective member of society, to make some close friends. The CRIMSON is good for this. So--I am obliged to say--are the varsity sports, Glee Club, Band, WHRB, any strong dramatic group, any busy committee, or scores of other groups. The point is to get moving with...
...Delegate Adlai Stevenson won wide support for his proposal to strengthen both U Thant and the Congolese central government in the struggle against all rebels and secessionists still stirring trouble in the Congo. But the Soviet Union's Valerian Zorin was anxious to protect one of the worst troublemakers, Red-backed Antoine Gizenga of Eastern province; tossing two rapid-fire vetoes, Russia's Zorin declined to approve any measure not directed exclusively against anti-Communist Moise Tshombe of Katanga. To prevent total deadlock and inaction, Stevenson reluctantly gave U.S. approval to the narrower, Soviet-favored proposal...