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...years undergraduates have been complaining in vain about the University's blue laws. The authorities have remained adamant, but when the Housemasters convene next Wednesday, they will no longer have an excuse for delaying relaxation of the parietal rules...
...only design smaller than a B17. After the war, turned out twin-engine (IL-12) and four-engine (IL-18) transports that look something like U.S. Convairs and Boeing Stratocruisers. Now working on a fast, twin-jet light bomber (IL-26) to replace the old Stormovik. Curt, uneducated, vain, he boasts that all the digging by the MVD has never turned up a disloyal...
With taxes being increased, both nationally and locally, the American public is now inspecting Congressional spending with a much more critical eye. We wonder what the American people would do or want to do, if they knew just how much of their money might be spent in vain through the Marshall Plan in a country that had been disillusioned as to the American way of life by "Take Care of My Little Girl...
Rearmament. On foreign policy, the Adenauer-Schumacher feud cleaves the Bundestag. Many German and Allied officials hope, probably in vain, for a "great coalition" of conservatives and Socialists so that German rearmament can be launched by bipartisan decision. German opposition to rearmament has decreased greatly in the last six months. There has been what the Germans call "Zeit zum umdenken"-time to think it over. General Eisenhower's declaration that the German soldier never lost his honor soothed much injured pride. Oddly enough, Neo-Nazi Ernst Remer (TIME, May 21) has also been helpful. A German veteran explained...
...confusion stems from the fact that the Government knowingly allocated more third-quarter steel than was available. The CMP assumed that many orders for steel would be canceled. The cancellations failed to appear; instead, customers everywhere were pounding on the doors of steel mills in a vain attempt to get more metal...