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While the constitution writers had been haggling, the News, the secret socities, and the fraternities woke up to what they considered a grisly peril. The News blasted the proposal in print while the secret society and fraternity men carried on an effective word-of-mouth anti-`council campaign. When the students voted in May, they gave the constitution a 2,199 to 1,851 majority, 501 short of the two-thirds necessary for passage...
...That night we slept in a gully. At 4 a.m. I woke up and got everybody else up we could find, as it was about 23 degrees and we were afraid we would freeze. We couldn't find five men and I am afraid they froze to death...
...Someone Woke Me." Last week the past seemed to rise up and haunt the cavalrymen. On its way to bolster up crumbling R.O.K. forces in northwest Korea, the division's 8th Regiment dug in for the night near Unsan, 80 miles north of Pyongyang. When morning came, the few troopers who were awake could not believe their ears. Said Pfc. Henry Tapper: "Someone woke me up and asked me if I could hear horses on the gallop. I couldn't hear anything, but then bugles started playing, far away." Pfc. William O'Rama, who was sitting...
Next day L'Aube woke up and apologized for its blooper. It had mixed up the biographies of new ECAdministrator William C. Foster, New York businessman and Republican, and still-militant U.S. Communist Boss William Z. Foster, no kin. Cried the Communist L'Humanité: the story was an insult to William Z. Foster...
...insistent ringing of the telephone woke George W. ("Bud") Roe, portly, red-faced managing editor of Hearst's Oakland (Calif.) Post-Enquirer, at 7 a.m. one day last week. On the line was his publisher, Ingraham Read, with an eye-opening message. Said Read: "We're closing the paper today...