Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some three dozen paratroopers, led by Major Flynn, are dropped in the jungle to find an enemy radar station whose destruction will aid the airborne reinvasion of Burma. They succeed almost too glibly, liquidating Japs so thoroughly that not one survives to shoot back, or even squirm. After blowing up the station, they get to a flight strip in plenty of time to be picked up by U.S. transports. But when a Jap force keeps the transports from landing, their anabasis begins. They are now faced with a march through some 150 miles of steep-slanted, many-rivered jungle, slithering...
Assuming the duties of Managing Editor will be James G. Trager, Jr. 46 of Lowell House and Scarsdale, New York, with J. Anthony Lewis 48 of Lowell House and New York City serving as News Editor. John T. Noonan '47 of Lowell House and Boston will succeed Walter A. Bates 46 of the Naval ROTC and Wadsworth, Ohio, as Advertising Manager...
...Chinese people generally are tolerant with regard to the Communist question. The Government's policy to employ political means to secure a peaceful settlement has been consistent. The policy will eventually succeed because it is in line with the good sense of the people." There will be no civil war in China, the Generalissimo added, so long as he is that nation's leader...
...Bill of Rights gives them a chance to get more money than they have ever dreamed of . . . They will not want to keep out un-qualified veterans; they will not want to expel those who fail." Hutchins recommended nation-wide examinations to screen out veterans who cannot succeed in or profit by college, and a plan to stimulate the colleges' discrimination and alertness by making them feet the bill for each of their veteran students...
...Hutchins recommendations: 1) institute nationwide examinations to screen out veterans who cannot really succeed in or profit by college; 2) stimulate the colleges' discrimination and alertness by making them foot half the bill for each of their veteran students...