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...this issue the two Democratic candidates, Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy and Edward J. McCormack, Jr., took intermediate positions. McCormack agreed with Hughes that "the day never existed when nuclear arms could attain political objectives" and urged that the U.S. negotiate with the U.S.S.R. on arms control. He suggested that our hugh striking force might allow us to discontinue further production of nuclear weapons...
...years, the Juilliard School of Music has played a leading role in helping the U.S. to attain a musical identity of its own. In the process, the school has largely been molded in the image of its presidents, including 51-year-old William Schuman, who recently resigned to head Manhattan's new Lincoln Center. Last week Juilliard got a new president, Peter Mennin, 39, a distinguished composer who figures he will make a good start by just keeping pace with the conservatory's present high standards...
...cent of all workers--who might be adversely affected by a sharp increase in imports." Several hundred times? Even in Heaven, 200 times one-half per cent is already one hundred per cent. As Oscar Gass said in the New Republic, commenting on Kennedy's statement, "Here we attain a limit of fantasy where all other competitors are left breathless...
Urrutia had previously hoped to attain a circulation which would have given a free copy of the Advocate to every room in the College; now he has more modest plans. "The magazine will try to get the first issue to all the freshmen," he explained, "and then we will play it by ear, depending on the general reaction...
Nervi's ferro-cement dome ceilings, strengthened by corrogated beams are today among his most familiar works. Conceived an executed as technical problems, these domed ceilings nevertheless attain a soaring beauty not foreseen in by the builder--entirely dependent on structural design yet not included...