Word: actually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cause for complacency either, and there was a complacent undertone in McElroy's assurances. Complacent acceptance of a 3-to-1 ICBM gap runs the risk that the actual gap will prove to be very much larger: Soviet technological progress has been underestimated before, can be underestimated again. And the existence of even a 3-to-1 gap could, without a shot being fired, shake the morale and twist the policies not only of neutralist nations but even of U.S. allies...
President Horn of the University of Rhode Island said yesterday that it was "absurd for the government to look only at the requests, and disregard the actual needs." He pointed out that Humphreys College in Stockton, California, with a student body of only 400, received a grant...
...Rhode Island College of Education did "an extremely careful job of estimating its actual need," explained President Gage, "and then we received only $165, a ridiculously small sum." In New England, grants ranged from Boston College's $54,472 to a $51 gift to North Adams State Teachers College, whose President wonders "whether it would ever be worthwhile to apply again...
...suspect," said McDonald, "that the Federal Government wanted to distribute the money with particular urgency to demonstrate that it could use the $24 million in additional funds requested recently by the President." Slashing the grant to each college to 10 per cent of its request, rather than examining actual needs, seemed "the quickest way," he thought...
Voters will cast two ballots, one for political parties (not individual candidates), the other for functional groups. In actual practice, Sukarno will have the authority to hand-pick half the members of parliament. The chief losers under the new system will be the Moslem Masjumi Party, many of whose leaders backed the "rebellion of the colonels" that still flickers in the outer islands, and the Communists. For the Reds the new Konsepsi is also a bitter blow, since under the old system they had been confident of winning the next elections and coming to power legally. But Red Boss...