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...capacity of the Eisenhower Administration for delay aften verges on the remarkable. Its current efforts to halt the recession, for instance, have been largely confined to attempts to predict its end. While these prognosticatory feats accord in general with the Administration's "confidence" line of economic thinking, they do not represent any serious attempts to analyze or cure the decline...
...order to placate the Western allies, who until recently have been obstinately optimistic over the value of summit talks. In an effort to satisfy this optimism and to alleviate the sources of dissension in NATO, the United States has bent over backwards to reach some sort of preliminary accord with Moscow...
...Khrushchev seeks a summit conference primarily for the vague generalizations of illusory accord which would come out of it, euphemistic statements corroborating the U.S.S.R.'s peaceful intent. It is possible, and even probable, that the U.S. would agree to the issuance of public statements of this nature, if only to satisfy the "solutionist" optimism of the American people. As at Yalta, it might seem necessary for the Government to reach agreement for agreement's sake, to underscore the positive value of negotiation, even at the expense of future American policy. At Geneva in 1956 what at first appeared...
Those leaving of their own accord are categorized under several different headings: withdrawals for medical reasons, for financial reasons, for military service, for transferral or the all inclusive "for personal reasons." With the possible exception of the approximately 25 people withdrawing for medical reasons each year, the rest can be considered voluntary drop-outs who leave "for personal reasons...
...Republicans 20 to 25 House seats and five Midwestern governors. Face to face with the President, they did not quite have the nerve to demand Benson's resignation. But they suggested meaningfully that maybe if the anti-Benson heat got hot enough, Benson might resign of his own accord. They got a stony presidential look in return...