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...Communist-led dockers' union has just relaxed a costly, month-old slowdown strike over a variety of wage and overtime issues which the Government charged were pretexts to hide the real reason: the Communist plot to slow down the British Commonwealth rearmament. The Australian government has tried in vain to deport British-born James ("Big Jim") Healy, Communist boss of the dockers. Last week Australia's efforts to cope with Communism received a heavy blow when the High Court voided a 1950 law outlawing the Communist Party and giving the government power to "declare" union officials and government...
Farewell! If heart's presages be not vain...
Charles D. Wetmore'89, builder of Claverly, soon had rivals who tried to put it into the shade. A freshman History instructor completed plans to build a new hall--Randolph--across the street, thus shutting the sunlight from Claverly's lower floors. In vain, Wetmore tried to persuade city authorities to increase the 20-feet wide Linden Street...
Alone in Paris, a homosexual watches blond, sun-tanned Germans fill streets emptied of law and respectability. "Anything goes!" he thinks, and lures a young deserter to his room. Roads are packed with townspeople fleeing the unknown invaders, while soldiers wait in vain for orders, seeing their officers desert. Among the soldiers is Mathieu, ex-teacher of philosophy; while his companions try to hold a cracking world together with plans for new life, Mathieu is absorbed in tracing their personal guilt in the collapse...
After one more sitting, his scowling Lewis will be ready to cast in bronze. Big, vain John loves it. After a recent sitting he took a good, hard look; then he gripped Kallio's shoulder and rumbled: "Thank...