Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grim looks clouded the faces of Senate Preparedness Subcommittee members last week after Allen Dulles, pipe-puffing boss of the Central Intelligence Agency, testified in secret about the awesome difficulties of U.S. intelligence-gathering inside the Soviet Union. Most worrisome dim spot in U.S. intelligence: estimates of Soviet missile production and deployment are based not on knowledge of actual output but on estimates of missile-making "capability." Some subcommittee members found the present intelligence gap even more distressing than the future missile gap of the early 1960s (TIME, Feb. 9), hinted that they would be willing to vote more money...
However checkered its career, British colonialism has always had its idealistic side, and the Central African Federation is no exception. Its motto is, "Let us deserve to be great," and its avowed policy is the "partnership" of the races. But last week the Federation was a land emotionally at war with itself, undecided which way to go-forward or back...
...Calvinists, but only at the price of a middle class invasion from which they never really recovered. At war's end, demobilization in Europe brought a huge influx of refugees--not merely the weary Britons looking for a second chance, but also a dynamic hoard of bright-eyed central and east Europeans. The newcomers, adaptable and eager to make good, often had technical skills and or artistic talents...
...would be unwise, however, to transfer operational duties to the college. One of the great attractions of the present program is that it gives a standard, both of grading and of content, which shifts duties from college departments to the central testing organization. The avoidance of grading has been a major reason for departmental acceptance of the A.P. program...
...Perfect Furlough. A frozen Army outpost in the Arctic, with central heating by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, makes a floe of comic clich...