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...tortuous twistings of the Student Union line have been hard enough to follow in the last few years. Last night's flip-flop, one might imagine, should have proved a little difficult for even the most hardened joy-riders in the cab of the famous Locomotive of History. The Executive Committee's report, however, passed with all the ease and speed of a motion to adjourn. The Union found itself unanimously agreed that "the goal of all persons wishing to preserve democracy and the freedom of the peoples of the world must be the military defeat of Hitler...
...Argentine sensibilities." Actually the demonstration was carefully staged. Key to the whole campaign is the argument that the ABC countries should unite in a bloc, excluding the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. The Rockefeller Committee is not responsible for major U.S. diplomacy in Latin America. That tortuous and gigantic task belongs to the U.S. State Department. The Rockefeller Committee's job is to harmonize inter-American cultural and commercial relations and is chiefly one of propaganda-put a case in its best possible light...
...come British criticisms: that U.S. Ordnance does not have enough punch; that the Ordnance Department's ideas of tank armament in even its latest medium tank are already obsolescent; that the Department has refused to go into immediate production of tried foreign models, instead has gone through the tortuous process of originating designs and building and testing models, before tooling for production. This last charge, at least, is no longer wholly true. On order in U.S. plants are Swiss automatic cannon (for the Navy), Bofors (Swedish) 40-mm. anti-aircraft guns, several other foreign designs...
Adapted from a "McCall's" magazine-novel, "Penny Serenade" comes to the movie public with "for women only" stamped all over it. About the most inspiring scene in two hours of tortuous tear-jerking, is the sight of Cary Grant anxiously pacing the midnight floor with his sobbing baby...
...through tricky slaloms, but he's hard to best in the jumping and cross country events. Another lad expected to crash through this season is Finn Ferner, Norwegian dare-devil who had a bit of bad luck last year when he found New England trails a little more tortuous than the Scandinavian slopes, spending most of his racing time in the woods. As far as style goes, Ferner is probably the most accomplished of Halsey's experts...