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...they learned only the barest details of the North Atlantic pact, tabloid readers learned a lot about life's triumphs, travail and heartbreak that readers of the Times and Herald Tribune (which chose to run Tenor Tagliavini's troubles on its music page) often missed in their news...
...atomic energy program. AEC should modify its sweeping code of secrecy, the committee said, since in many cases it was unnecessary and downright harmful to the program. Secrecy was carried so far, the committee implied, that businessmen often did not even know how or where to get the barest information...
...said, bore no relation to the fight over air groups. The U.M.T. decision lay between a modest-size standing army of 932,000 men supplemented by a U.M.T.-fed National Guard-or a much bigger Army than anyone wanted to contemplate. He estimated that without U.M.T., for "the barest type of security," the Army would have to be raised to at least...
...Crimson went down to the Bowl with the barest glimmerings of a chance for an upset; an upset that would have saved the season, that would have almost obscured the Virginia and Rutgers and Princeton debacles...
Little was known about his personal past. Russia's Cerberean censors withheld the barest biographical data. Recently, when a newsman who wanted to write a Gromyko profile asked his help, Gromyko snapped: "My personality does not interest me." One somewhat challenging fact is known: there are actually many Gromykos in the world...