News Quiz, Jun. 28, 1954

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2. Providing for joint action against Communist infiltration in the hemisphere.

3. Condemning seizure of private property without compensation.

4. "Deploring" Argentine justicialism.

5. Favoring a "Parliament of the Western Hemisphere."

75. Soaring prices and roaring protests followed the 31% devaluation of the peso in:

1. Cuba. 4. Bolivia.

2. Venezuela. 5. Mexico.

3. Panama.

76. "Disturbing," said President Eisenhower when reports from Guatemala told of:

1. Arrival of a huge arms shipment from behind the Iron Curtain.

2. A bloody purge of the middle class.

3. Civil war between Communist and fascist sympathizers.

4. Armed raids across the border into Honduras.

5. Arrival of a Soviet military mission.

OTHER EVENTS

BOOKS AND EDUCATION

77. In the guise of Sadakichi Hartmann's biographer, Gene Fowler writes of Barrymore, Fields and other once-rollicking Hollywood musketeers in:

1. The Woman in the Case.

1. Pictures from an Institution.

3. The Man Who Never Was.

4. Minutes of the Last Meeting.

5. The Devil's Daughter.

78. It is the informal and gifted conversationalist—not the abstruse philosopher—that Boston's Lucien Price has caught in Dialogues of:

1. John Dewey.

2. William James.

3. Alfred North Whitehead.

4. Arnold Toynbee.

5. Paul Tillich.

79. The Fire-Raisers, a first novel by Marris Murray, is an impressive story about the "sickness" of:

1. Russia. 4. Puerto Rico.

2. Nazi Germany. 5. New York City.

3. South Africa.

80. Scholars came from all over the world to attend the year-long series of conferences and convocations staged to celebrate the 200th anniversary of:

1. Harvard.

2. Princeton.

3. Yale.

4. Columbia.

5. University of Virginia.

81. Traffic accidents involving school children have dropped 35% in 25 years, largely because of the:

1. Increase in cops.

2. School Safety Patrolmen.

3. Revised traffic laws.

4. Stricter enforcement of bicycle-riding regulations.

5. Decline in the use of bicycles.

82. A most timely book written by Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette Editor Harry S. Ashmore, which summarizes the results of a long investigation carried out by 45 scholars, is:

1. Loyalty of College Professors.

2. Financing the Schools.

3. Better Schools.

4. Education in America.

5. The Negro and the Schools.

Art and Entertainment

83. Voted the best picture of the year in the Academy Awards, this film also picked up seven other Oscars:

1. The Moon Is Blue.

2. Roman Holiday.

3. From Here to Eternity.

4. Shane.

5. The Pickwick Papers.

84. A whole galaxy of stars competes fiercely for attention in this adaptation of Cameron Hawley's bestselling

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