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...system of color TV, in its fourth month of regular broadcasting, was stopped dead last week by a letter from Washington. The letter, written by Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, asked CBS to suspend its plans for the mass production of color sets. The request was made, said Wilson, in order to save scarce materials needed for the defense effort...
Today Romans celebrate the ancient Meditrinalia, mysterious vintage festival, originally connected with Jupiter. On Saturday, while Harvard watches or listens to the football game, the Romans will celebrate Faunalia in honor of the Good Goddess. Unwilling to suspend publication for both holidays, the CRIMSON has compromised. There will be no Crime tomorrow...
...proposed Security Council resolution condemning Israel for bombing Syria in retaliation for the shooting of seven Israeli soldiers (TIME, May 14). Eban's faint failed to influence the Council: while he was out, it adopted the measure 10-0, with Russia abstaining. The resolution ordered Israel to 1) suspend work on its project to drain Hula swamp in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, which had caused the flare-up, 2) return Arabs whom it had deported from the area to make room for Jewish settlers. The sponsors of the resolution (U.S., Britain, France and Turkey) made...
...Massachusetts Bar Association petitioned the state supreme court to "disbar, censure or suspend" Alger Hiss, disbarred in New York last year, and now in Lewisburg, Pa. prison serving a five-year sentence for perjury...
...Then the undergraduate weekly Sandspur put out a special anti-Wagner issue, accusing the president of distorting the facts about the college's financial crisis. Wagner denounced the issue as "filled with falsehoods ... a smear on my reputation." Unless the editors retracted, said he, he would suspend them...