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Crisis of Confidence. From the hard, gritty North Sea ports to the lush Bavarian mountains, from Germany's iron heart in the Ruhr to the placid university towns which cherish their professors and their poets, the land ruled by Konrad Adenauer still bears the brutal stamp of total defeat. It also bears the pale, pinched look of poverty. The free-enterprise economic policies, put to work under military government, have led West Germany's 46 million hard-working people from near-starvation a long way toward recovery. But the country's economy is still far from healthy...
...Council decided not to conceal its share of the drive and to give students the option of not contributing to the Council if they do not want to. At the top of the contribution card, therefore, appears the sentence, "The Student Council will receive 20 percent of the total contribution unless specifically prohibited by the individual student." There is no definite space to signify such a prohibition...
Eight-nine percent of the Class of 1949 has already landed jobs, although only about a third of the positions were secured through the Placement Office. A total of 215 firms sought Business School men through the office last year, but placement directors claim that "things look a bit tougher for this year...
...start of the second world war, degrees-awarded figures, starting with the 33 given out in 1910, had cumulated to a total of 7,757. During the war, however, the School cut out all degree awarding, choosing rather to lend its full experience to the war effort...
There is some justification for pointing up Lewis, and the author documents it: "In the year of 1937 John L. Lewis and his activities took in the New York Times 99,816 column inches or 4.2 percent of the total news coverage for the year, foreign or domestic. This meant that about one-twentieth of the New York Times day in and day out was devoted to Lewis and his operations." Lewis is now, and always has been, a big man in American unionism: this cannot be denied, even by his most rabid enemy. But a good biographer must balance...