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...requirements for its letters this fall. Cross country's are already considered high enough. The last barriers separating these sports from football in status, if not in popularity, therefore have fallen away. The faculty should abolish this distinction, and get set for the time when winter teams begin to clamor...
This failure was less serious than it might seem. The U.S. public, for all it cheered visiting Russians and enjoyed relaxation, knows the anti-Communist lesson thoroughly and is not likely to revert to indifference. There is, for instance, no clamor to reduce the military strength of the U.S. until the Communists make self-executing agreements on disarmament. There is still general agreement that the Red retreat has been brought about by 1) the military power of the West; 2) the growing political order and stability of the free world; and 3) the amazing U.S. economic record of success...
...would take time for changes in the setup to be reflected in improved safety in the vaccine and certainty on the part of the vaccinators. P.H.S. men were privately hoping that public clamor for the vaccine, by some unforeseeable magic, would peter out by August, when the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will finish inoculating first-and second-graders. Said Dr. Scheele. in a thinly veiled reference to the foundation's widely known determination to get an effective vaccine within Founder-President Basil O'Connor's lifetime: "You cannot make viruses meet deadlines." Largely because of this...
...conference at the summit" as a substitute for German rearmament. This sentiment was so strong that even Sir Winston Churchill repeatedly urged such a conference, if only to prove that Russian peace talk was insincere. The U.S. refused to be deflected from the defense of Europe by the conference clamor...
...official documents relating to the ill-fated meeting of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in the Crimea. The documents were crammed with illuminating (and often appalling) details of the mood and manner in which the Big Three sliced up the world (see p. 27). In the clamor that followed publication of the papers, most Americans were interested in the answers to two questions: 1) Why did the State Department release them at this time? 2) What effect would their release have on international relations...