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...Veterans housing was torn down last summer, the new parking space will provide room for 130 cars. Approximately 80 places will be available to students. This is the sixth and largest parking lot in the University, excluding the area at the Business School, and will occupy half of the vacant area at the Divinity School...
...diplomacy to take its place alongside West Point and Annapolis," Stassen said, decrying the low caliber of our diplomatic corps. Because of the lack of adequately trained foreign service personnel "some nephew of a senator, who hardly knows how to get out of the rain, often gets a vacant position...
Last week, when the day came, a steady stream of well-armed cops, backed by armored cars, moved into the teeming native slums of South Africa's main cities. Army reinforcements stood ready at strategic points. But no trouble came. In Johannesburg's "Freedom Square," a dilapidated vacant lot in the Indian-African slum of Fordsburg, only 4,000 blacks showed up, instead of the 100,000 predicted. In & out among them flitted white Communist agitators, jangling collection boxes and spouting pat phrases about "U.S. imperialism in Asia." Sturdy Dr. Moroka (who is not a Communist) climbed...
...another irate letter-writer, George Rehin '52. He wrote, "They would have all of us dress alike, behave alike in class and thing alike. There will come a day when all Yalemen must dress like spooks on Tap Day, sit rigid in the class room with the somber and vacant stares of mechanical men, file with military precision into the dining halls, and never touch women or liquor after...
...City's Borough of Queens, has long been safe, solid Democratic ground. Its 450,000 residents register two-to-one for Harry Truman's party; they have sent Democrats to Congress nine out of ten times in the last 20 years. Last week, voting to fill its vacant congressional seat, the Fifth turned down a Democrat and elected a Republican to Congress by a vote of 17,300 to 11,442.* It was an unexpected upset for the Democrats. Was it also a harbinger of November? Republicans, naturally, hoped so. During the campaign, G.O.P. Candidate Robert Tripp Ross...