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The courage to be patient. ' 1954 u was rapidly becoming history, was a difficult year, and many wondered whether Father Time would ring in a world war along with the new year. In answer to those queries, the na- tion ' s leader, President Eisenhower, had this to say: Let us recognize that we owe it to ourselves and to the world to explore every possible means of settling differences before we even think of . . . war. And the hard way is to have the courage to be patient . . . Just as President Eisenhower gave the world a message to end 1954, Pope Pius sup- plied the watchword for the year to come: Let us change from a coexistence in fear to a coexistence in fear of God. Despite these When shall u-e three meet again? inspiring words to live by, the world heard ominous sounds in January 1955: the rattle of machine guns at Panama as President Jose Remon was assassinated, the sound of revolu- tion in Costa Rica, the crash of bombs at the Tachens, the tension in the President ' s voice as he asked for and received authorization to protect Formosa and the Pescadores. These were the sounds men feared. Yale ' s fretful problems seemed incredibly unimportant by comparison. Some were la- beling the Yale curriculum too liberal, and these found a medium of expression through the Independent; meanwhile a sharp con- troversy arose briefly over the failure of the Law School to promote Vern Countryman. For The Seventh Fleet stands by off Formosa. the most part, life seemed merely tedious dur- ing the lame duck period before exams, and undergraduates ' ears and eyes turned back to the broader panorama of the world. Ike was asking for a draft extension, a lowering of tariffs, and a transition from war to peace economy in his State of the Union message, but he found himself back in Congress four days later to ask for pro- tectory powers. Three weeks later, cease-fire talks began in the UN, but an undesirable prerequisite seemed to be recognition of Red Inn. i. Citizens of Argentina woke up New Year ' s day to discover that prostitution was legalized. Many New Year ' s resolutions con- sequently went out the window. Back in America, the Dixon-Yates controversy raged in Washington and in the South. 16

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W hat the Yale man read in his leisure time some- times followed the national pattern, often diverged. THE Xew Haven green lit up in December with its annual Christmas dis- play, but the biggest news at Yale before the Christmas vacation was the announcement that Professor Theodore M. Greene of the philosophy department was leaving Yale to take a position at Scripps College in Clair- mont, California. In his course in intellectual history Pro- fessor Franklin Baumer lashed out at the ' bitch goddess, Success which prevented so many students from devoting time to mental life. With this warning ringing in their ears, freshmen began heeling competition three months later. Rhodes Scholarships were awarded to James Griffin and Jacque Robert- son, who, incidentally, was managing editor of the Record. The smell of formaldehyde was over- whelming to those who spent their after- Corelli replaces Ackerman for 1 ale. ' David Royce in the Harvard Crimson portrays graphically the Eli ' s physical condition on the morning of The Game. noons butchering fetal pigs, and scholars were still falling asleep in Linonia and Broth- ers room in the library. Cleaning up the room for a date was still an unpleasant chore, although some found that the best way to avoid this was to go to Poughkeepsie, North- ampton, New London, or Boston. The winter was to prove rather mild; but between Sep- tember and May could be found a seemingly endless succession of rain, sleet, snow, and slush, following in dreary and inevitable order. If the weather outlook was not bright, the world situation was even darker. UN Secre- tary Dag Hammerskjold was leaving for China to argue the case for the thirteen American pilots, and Judge Gorman of the Chicago Superior Court ruled that a child born of artificial insemination is illegitimate, and the mother is guilty of adultery. On December 4, the condition of Pope Pius was reported grave, but not worse, after the Pope suffered a heart attack. He received the last rites of the Church, and the world knelt to pray for his recovery. Only two days later the Pope made a broadcast from his sickbed, and his doctors announced that he was much better. A paradox showed up in the news of De- cember 6. Peace and revolt shared the head- lines as the UN General Assembly voted unanimously to pool atoms for peace, while at the same time, a free-for-all riot broke out in the Japanese Diet over a motion to adjourn. Australia and America were set- tling their differences on the tennis courts, and Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas, coached by Captain Billy Talbert, finally managed to bring the coveted Davis Cup, emblematic of world tennis supremacy, back to America. 15

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WALL STREET was the top news of February from the business world, climbing to record heights after the elections returned a Democratic congress. Stocks moved so high, however, that Congress decided it was time to investigate. The volatile market plunged sharply because of investigations, but immediately rose to set an all-time rec- ord for a single day ' s climb. Before this reprieve came, however, some investors were unmistakably frightened, fearing another de- pression. Much was said in praise of the new broad-base market, with great numbers of buyers and sellers; but many investors, view- ing the alarming paper rise of stocks, won- dered if this entrance of the little man into the market was as desirable as it seemed. Uranium strikes were occurring all over the country, even in New Jersey (of all places). Business was brought closer to Yale with the Yale Daily News ' publication of Wall Street 1955. At Cooperstown, baseball ' s Hall of Fame opened its doors to Joe DiMaggio, Ted Lyons, Dazzy Vance, and Gabby Hartnett. In Africa, Albert Schweitzer quietly turned eighty. For his mid-November test in Contempo- rary Problems in International Relations, Professor R. Barry Farrell asked a series of identification questions. Two of them, com- plained his students, were particularly pica- yune. The names: Bulganin and Kruschev. On February 8, all Yale and all the world knew the names. On that day the Russian government announced that Georgi Malen- kov had voluntarily stepped down to give way to Nikolai Bulganin. Zhukov took over Bulganin ' s job as Defense Minister, but most experts predicted that the real power rested with Kruschev. That same day Molotov bragged that Russia was far ahead in the H-Bomb race. Bulganin, Malenkov, and Khrushchev: For Russia ' s Big Three, a rapid turnover. 17