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...Democratic Party during the coming year. His meetings with Stevenson, Kefauver and Harriman in Chicago prompted a reporter to ask him whether it was significant that "the other two men called on you, and you called on Governor Harriman." Said Harry Truman, with the broadest of grins: "They all have to call...
From the time of President Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf, educators have sought repeatedly to offset specialization in American colleges. Harvard's General Education program has been one of the broadest of these attempts to infuse, as President Conant wrote, "the liberal and humane tradition into our entire educational system...
WHAT do we know about the Soviet Air Force? In the broadest sense, air power is the product of a host of factors -geographical position, bases, oil and fuel production, aluminum capacity, industrial capabilities, technical know-how, design and engineering skill, and planes, missiles, weapons, electronics, air crews and ground experts. In most, though not all of these factors, the United States has a decided edge. Soviet Russia has a lot of planes; some estimates are as high as 35,000 to 48,000 military aircraft, more than half of them in storage, reserve, or support roles. But some acute...
Through direct grants to universities for specific research projects and through two subsidiary funds set up expressly for the support of education, the Ford Foundation has fulfilled the dictum expressed by the trustees in 1953: "Education in its broadest sense is perhaps the single most promising means for improving human welfare and has been supported in various ways by almost every grant we have made...
...husband, the consequent disillusionment with physical love, and her immersion in stage life as a mime. As far as I can judge, the translation is a good one. The studied incompleteness of her style, which ends not in a statement but a suggestion, has been preserved, as in: "The broadest of broad jokes doesn't scare me, but I don't like talking of love. If I had lost a beloved child, it seems to me that I should never again be able to pronounce its name...