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Mikoyan had no answer for U.S. editorialists and pundits, who continually clamor at the U.S. State Department for "new solutions." Behind his mask of amiability, Mikoyan was still one of the oldest power-holding Bolsheviks, committed to freedom's eventual extinction. Inevitably, his outer amiability had stirred U.S. hopes for a new era of friendship. But by the very nature of his cause, Anastas Mikoyan could only dash such hopes in the hearts of all but the most unrealistic optimists...
...shaped the U.S., Author Griffith has added his of a land "where differences in color and race are not falsely denied but make a competition in being the best . . . where nobility is not mere respectability and virtue does not produce a snigger; where the clang of work and the clamor of play attest to the common health; where enemies cannot reach us because our merit, and not our guns or our propaganda, has won the world to our side...
...assets, the great bulk of it stocks. Another $12 billion in stocks is held by other institutional buyers such as insurance companies and pension funds. Even such stiff-collared investment bankers as Lehman Bros. and Lazard Frères went into the fund business, unable to resist the clamor for shares. Lehman originally offered shares worth $37.5 million; demand was so great the issue was boosted to $198 million. Lazard also first thought of $37.5 million, sold $127.5 million...
...over the last 100 years. I don't imagine the arguments have changed much." The proposal: drop Cambridge's stringent entrance rule requiring knowledge of Latin or Greek. It had been put forward most recently in 1948, when the dons voted it down 250-155, and the clamor against enforced classicism was going strong again last week. Most clangorous clamorer: gadfly-sized (5 ft. 5 in., 150 lbs.), distinguished Cambridge Author-Astronomer Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (who lists among his recreations, in Who's Who, "wondering about...
...same time, confederation would probably allay some of the clamor in West Germany for reunification, thereby lessen the strain on West German loyalty to NATO. West Germans might feel that, without any Russians in the act, they could get along with and even prevail over East German Communists. But the contrary would be true: confederation would give the Soviet puppet government of East Germany a voice, however small, in the common affairs of Germany, and that voice would not long be reticent...