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...foreign policy, some applications of Augustan power might well benefit the cause of liberty and justice in the world, but the Administration is learning that many of the U.S.'s frustrations abroad result from factors -the momentum of history, the vanity of foreign leaders, the poverty of foreign peoples -that the U.S., with all its power, can do little or nothing to change in a hurry. Last week Adlai Stevenson uttered forceful words in the U.N. ; Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams all but went native on a tour of Africa; and the Administration's Peace Corps...
Leontyne finally abandoned her teaching plans in her senior year and set her sights on Juilliard and the Met.* At a concert at Antioch College Paul Robeson heard her, decided that she was marvelous, and agreed to sing at a benefit to help her musical education: the concert raised $1,000. At that point Elizabeth Chisholm went to James Price and asked permission to help Leontyne too. Says Leontyne: "I love her more for that-for asking-than for any check she ever gave me." Leontyne Price fiercely insists on distributing credit for her success-not just to "the wonderful...
...Deterrence would be complete if the aggressor could not defeat the military forces of the free world whatever form aggression took. If adequate limited war forces are coupled with an invulnerable retaliatory force, the aggressor would be unable to benefit from either limited or all-out conflict.... The purpose of a strategy of limited war, then, is first to strengthen deterrence, and, second, if deterrence should fail, to provide an opportunity for settlement before the automatism of the retaliatory forces takes over...
...asserts, of total disarmament, a slight evasion of which would result in enormous gain, and which would thereby prove an irresistible temptation for the aggressive power. Stabilization at a relatively high level of armament, on the other hand, would require a large-scale evasion in order to produce any benefit...
Joining with Mrs. Newman was Rep. Freyda Koplow of Brookline, who opposed the "sale of public park land for private purposes." Professional people have declared the bill unsound and the MTA has taken no stand on the issue, Mrs. Koplow maintained. "We should not sell the land for the benefit of John Briston 'Stilts' Sullivan...