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Decision on the Snake For seven years, private-and public-power advocates have been battling over rival plans to tame the Northwest's tortuous, turbulent Snake River, one of the last great U.S. valleys still unharnessed...
...Keep the Tories tame!" urged Lon don's pro-Labor Daily Mirror as election day neared. "A bloated majority for the Tories would be a national disaster...
Student communists had first appeared on the University scene in 1932 when a group organized in Leverett House D-41 to form the John Reed Club. Chiefly intellectual and rather tame, the group was devoted to the study of scientific Marxism and education. The Young Communist League formed soon after in a much more militant fashion. Its monthly magazine, the Harvard Communist, was issued from an anonymous post office box in Boston. Besides featuring the current party line in its columns, the magazine took an active interest in winning converts from among the most susceptible, the underdog. It drew attention...
Milliet's most biting judgment: "He painted like a staff officer . . . He painted top lavishly and paid no attention to details . . . And his color . . . Extreme, abnormal, inadmissible. Sonic tones were too warm, too violent, not tame enough. You see, the artist should paint with love, not with passion. A canvas should be 'caressed'; Van Gogh would rape it . . . At times he was a real brute, a tough...
...Crimson basketball tame begins its weekend push to move out of the Ivy League collar tonight against a favored Cornell squad. A win, not unlikely, coupled with a victory over Yale tomorrow would assure the team of at least a tie for sixth place in the final standings with Brown...