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...comes to the great white continent of Antarctica, bringing 24-hour-a-day sunshine and a brief, spongy softening of the coastal pack ice. That cold and flowerless southern summer is the season when dedicated men arrive by ship or plane to extend man's scanty knowledge-and tenuous possession-of the earth's most inhospitable region...
...required connection between film subjects and the purposes of undergraduate organizations already is in danger. For the petition which the HLU has submitted to present All the King's Men clearly shows that the tenuous line between a proper and improper film will not prevent a club from remaining in the movie business...
...struck the area. They might raise the question of the brutal treatment and forcible indoctrination of British prisoners taken in Korea. But perhaps their most interesting quest would be to seek out their own opposite numbers in China-the leaders of the "democratic parties," which are still allowed a tenuous existence owing to their propaganda value-and, without asking such foolish questions as how these parties viewed their chances of coming to power during this year's "elections," to inquire precisely how their party platforms differ from that of their Communist rulers. This should be an instructive glimpse...
...exchange for sovereignty, Indonesian leaders agreed to place their country in a Netherlands-Indonesian Union, an arrangement which had the appearance of a common bond but was not one in fact. Last week even this tenuous tie was broken. In The Hague, Dutch and Indonesian delegates signed a protocol to end the political union. The Dutch took satisfaction in the fact that the economic links were left intact: they still have a billion-dollar investment in Indonesia...
...somber stillness dropped over the paddies of Tonkin, and an anxious peace settled over the world. For the first time in almost a quarter of a century,*there was no large-scale war on the planet. But it was a tenuous peace, bought at a dreadful price...