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Beveridge's move officially cut the ground out from under the sizable number of twilight members of the group who had not wanted to have their names appear on the lists kept in University Hall. According to Beveridge there are about ten men who were active with the group before and would have been willing to join it officially if they had not had to submit their names to the Deans' Office. He deplored the fact that the list requirement in the rules prevented the others from being members of the organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YPs Give Watson Larger List, Still Have No Advisers | 3/9/1951 | See Source »

Suddenly the Moroccan Sons of the Prophet were caught in a heavy enfilading fire. Muongs and Moroccans now began to pull back, fighting all the way. At twilight, General de Lattre's pilot warned him they must leave. From the Plexiglas window of his small plane, De Lattre continued to watcn the battle, saw that artillery fire had stopped the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Hill 101 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...general, the America's Future broadcasts stress the overtaxing of the public, the value of free enterprise, and the dangers of the welfare state. But listeners have also heard that Britain has "moved into the twilight and confusion and frustration of a Planned Economy" and it is beginning to realize that it has "lost much of" its "precious heritage of freedom." According to America's Future, England has "wide-spread poverty, despair, distrust among friends and antagonism between employer and employee...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/12/1950 | See Source »

Fred L. Whipple, Professor of Astronomy, last Sunday announced a new theory on the twilight glow that appears after subset. Whipple attributed the so called zodiacal light to particles of cosmic dust in space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whipple Reports Twilight Theory | 12/7/1950 | See Source »

...finance this week warned against straitjacketing the nation's rearmament economy with price & wage controls. In an all-out war, said Russell C. Leffingwell, who at 72 had just stepped down from the chairmanship of J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc., such controls are necessary. But in the twilight period of half-war, half-peace that lies ahead, they would stifle the economy. The basic problem, wrote Leffingwell in Barren's, is to stimulate production, discourage nonessential civilian consumption. Price-fixing, he insisted, would do neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Freedom Road | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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