This January is different. It s as though the future is held here. Held at bay, held at more than arm s length. And the waiting is everywhere. School is over for Alex Delaney and he s waiting for his university offers only seventeen days away. The waiting is killing him. He s not expecting much from January. Bodysurfing, TV, but mainly waiting. So he s not ready for the girl who cuts past him on a wave. Not at all prepared for her perfect balance, compelling green eyes, and gold skin. January is about to change."

Considers H.R. 53 and related bills, to amend the Veterans Readjustment Assistants Act to provide education, vocational rehabilitation and loan guarantee benefits to veterans serving in times of peace. Includes HEW Bulletin No. 17 "Financial Aid for College Students: Graduate," 1957 (p. 1267-1421), and HEW Bulletin No. 18 "Financial Aid for College Students: Undergraduate," 1957 (p. 1423-1658).

This collection of memoirs by refugees from Nazi Germany is a rich source of autobiographical information on the Nazi era. Housed at Houghton Library of Harvard University, it consists of 263 files containing the memoirs of approximately 230 people who lived in Germany or Austria during the 1930s. The stories of the memoirists encompass an almost bewildering range of human experience. The authors come from Danzig and Berlin, from central Germany and the Southwest, from Munich and from Vienna. They are Jews and Catholics and Protestants, and mixtures of these all-too-neat categories in their origins and marriages. They are peddlers and professors, machinists and lawyers, private housewives and public activists. They are conservatives and liberals and Communists. The strongest common bond was their exile.