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There are limitations to all-out adoption of this debate style for the Harvard Council, though, Many opponents refuse to debate any but the standard question so that they are able to determine their regional standing merely by a glance at comparative won-lost records. Further, it is difficult to find over eighty opponents and topics(the Debate Council's present yearly schedule) that would draw an audience...
...This is Truman's war and General MacArthur, under orders of the Commander in Chief, has done his level best to end the war ... I have not seen any statement by [MacArthur] that he wants to send American foot soldiers into Manchuria. Certainly he has not suggested an all-out war with China . . . Let us hear from...
First, it is a known fact that over since MacArthur undertook the policy of waging an all-out war in Korea with full intentions of carrying it to the doorstop of Red China, thus risking the danger of precipitating a world war in Asia, there has been much unrest and antagonism among our allies, particularly among the peoples of Western Europe. They felt, and perhaps rightly so, that it was a slap in their face for us to pour so many men and materials into such an insignificant place of no particular strategic value, while they were so badly needed...
...barring all-out war, Wilson expects arms output to have reached its height and begin tapering off. Then civilian production will rise again. For example, new plants will turn out so much aluminum in 1953 that the military will be able to take 500,000 tons and still leave civilians about as much as they got before Korea. By 1953, a greatly expanded U.S. industrial plant should be able to carry the burden of war & peace production with comparative ease. By then, said Wilson, "we can probably begin to talk about taking off controls...
...script sacrifices them all to Hope's aggressive pursuit of anything for a laugh, from trip-hammer wisecracks to all-out slapstick. Since almost anything he does gets a laugh, none but the most stubborn Runyon fans should mind. Best scene: Hope trying to sneak the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window...