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Whales on the Beach. Throughout the world last week there were signs that the age-old war between man and his less-educated cousins was proceeding with unwonted vigor. Britain's Ministries of Food and Agriculture joined forces in an offensive against rabbits of all nationalities, by lifting rationing restrictions on the sale of imported rabbits in Britain's butcher shops, and issuing free poison gas to Britain's farmers for the extermination of the domestic variety...
...Western Vigor...
...legend, the official story goes that the university was founded soon after the death of young Leland, in memory of the boy who died just before he reached college age. Senator Stanford expressed the desire that the university should bring intellectual life to the West and add to the vigor of the Western experience. He wanted a college that was free from the outworn traditions of older universities, especially one that would, in his words, "qualify its students for personal success and direct usefulness in life." He felt that colleges had become too far removed from American life...
...largely to the vigilance of the city's hefty, even-tempered police chief, 49-year-old Eiji Suzuki. Chief Suzuki started his regime by cleaning up Osaka's formidable gangs of thugs and black-marketeers. When the Communists began making trouble, he went after them with equal vigor. Last July, when a Communist-published kabe shimbun (wall newspaper) published stories charging G.I.s with attacking Japanese women, Suzuki saw his chance. Under an Army directive forbidding falsification of news about the occupation, he jugged 108 Reds, including many of Osaka's Communist officials...
...very vigor with which the Assembly opposes the administration when it feels its prerogatives threatened is evidence that a base for democracy exists in South Korea. Along with their colorful squabbles, legislative and executive branches are also capable of cooperating to strengthen that base. This week's dispute did not halt work on the new land reform law which by a shrewd double play may give South Korea a large, stable class of small farm owners, plus a business class that it now lacks. During Japan's rule almost all Korean industry and large areas of choice farmland...