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...Korea, Japan, Nationalist China) into shape to carry more of their own defense load. Specifics: he put down South Korean riots against U.S. troops (provocation: the U.S. agreed to Communist truce supervisors), spearheaded the Defense Department's successful efforts to solve the land crisis which threatened permanent political unrest on Okinawa, the U.S.'s main Far East defense position...
...present system, which has gained the cautious approval of deans and students alike, has developed cyclically over a half century. During the general unrest of the nineteen-twenties, Radcliffe girls were bound by a social system of comparatively stringent rules. With the thirties came the progressively greater freedom that caused apprehension among members of the Administration. Ada L. Comstock, then President of the Annex, voiced the opinion, "You never take a step back--once you go forward, you never retreat." But she was at least partly mistaken, for the amending of senior privilege in the forties reversed the trend...
...Student unrest grew until Saturday afternoon, when a crowd of more than 1500 Yalies converged on the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, throwing snowballs at marching policemen and interrupting the procession. A 60-man riot squad arrived on the scene, armed with billy-clubs, blackjacks, and a fire hose, which was eventually turned on Calhoun College to quiet rioters...
...Madrid have told him that he has cancer, and he is nagged by the conviction that as a bad Catholic he has small chance of dying in a state of grace. Dr. Chance seems to him the man who might save him. Against a background of native political unrest, Chance becomes part of Macgrady's crowd. He goes to dope parties in the native quarter, drinks only a little less than Macgrady, and has the bad luck to fall in love with his patient's beautiful young wife Anna...
...Council, proposed an "open forum" in March to discuss NSA and to set up a committee to study NSA's summer convention. His first motion was soundly defeated, following charges by William M. Kargman '61, that "a forum before the student body at this time will create unrest and lose further Council prestige...