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...keeps pushing such controversial legislation, he may not be around for too long. In Moscow, a new B. & K. diarchy is in power, but unless Brezhnev and Kosygin manage to work in tandem more effectively than Bulganin and Khrushchev did, an internal power struggle may grip Russia and becloud efforts for an East-West detente. Peking's atomic blast may make it more difficult than ever for the U.S. to keep nations along the periphery of Red China from falling under its influence. In Latin America, Johnson must take up the unfinished business of Fidel Castro, not to mention...
...been worked out. it appeared that the drug, chemical and food companies who contributed to Castro would be able to write off $25 million (at retail, not wholesale, prices) of the $53 million ransom as "charitable" deductions. Charitable it certainly was-but of the sort that might becloud the brow of the ordinary U.S. taxpayer, worried as he is by Administration threats to make him show receipts for every dime he hands out for charity...
...excellent television serial to be run at eleven in the morning. It is just the type of movie to coax tears from the housewife, but yawns from the student. The best that can be done is to wait out the Brattle in hope that its next flick will better becloud the academic mind. This simply hasn...
Expansion is a dirty word. The Administration would rather use such euphemisms as "natural growth," and "normal expansion of facilities," or, more frequently, not discuss the subject at all. Despite attempts to becloud the issue, however, it is quite clear that the College is committed to a policy of substantial expansion...
...this reason that Curley had constantly to carry on diversionary actions. They were like his planted hecklers and the stickers, "Vote for Curley: a Humble Man," pasted onto the pretentious posters of an opponent. Curley had no extensive scheme, mental or political, with which to becloud events. With him it was a day to day activity. That is why he was so dependent on patronage powers, and his influence faded so quickly when he went to Washington...