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Perhaps the Council's greatest challenge is approaching now over the question extending freshman parietal hours. Because the HUC proposal on parietals does not include freshmen, the burden to present Dean von Stade with a careful study rests on the Council. Yet more and more, the Council is depending upon a few members. Traditionally, attendance at meetings slackens, and apathy spreads as the year proceeds. It would be disappointing if this Freshman Council were to fail now in its attempt to become effective student government...
...Nazi Party won eight seats in elections for the Hesse state legislature. Kiesinger faced the issue headon. He told a press conference that he had joined the party in 1933, but had become disillusioned the next year and remained inactive after that. He insisted that he was drafted into Von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry in 1940 and served only in a minor position in the section that beamed broadcasts abroad. To buttress his statement, he released a wartime document in which a Nazi informer had denounced him to the Gestapo for sup pressing anti-Jewish material on broad casts...
...demonstrating workers in 1848; army rifle butts broke strikes in the years that followed. Even after the defeat of World War II, German officers retained their antilabor sentiment, labeled union organizing efforts "contradictory to the principle of command and obedience." In August, Christian Democratic Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel knuckled under to labor pressure and permitted the Public Service, Transport and Traffic Workers Union (Soldiers Section) to begin recruiting in Bundeswehr barracks. That caused two top generals to resign (TIME, Sept. 2) and widened the fissure in the C.D.U...
Died. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 71, a stubby, impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this...
...Scientist Von Braun is about to blow up the Outerlands, Alphaville's enemy, when Caution, who has just escaped from the clutches of Alpha 60, bursts in and shoots him. Then there is a great chase scene with Caution's car chased around by two police cars -- all shot from directly overhead. Godard tosses in a few negative shots and Caution gets away, gets the girl and gets out of the place...