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This course requires a complete reversal of past & present U.S. State Department policy. Without a very strong U.S. policy, U.N. probably will not go along with Course No. 5. There is even a chance that opposition by U.N. members will be used to cloak a lack of determination in the U.S. State Department...
...radio or movies (see CINEMA) . It now seems clear that TV was invented, in part at least, as a frame for his special talents. The dynamic Durante personality, a sort of mixture of W. C. Fields and Donald Duck, triumphs over old routines and standard jokes. In an opera cloak and top hat, he achieves a Chaplinesque dignity as he insists that Tannhäuser is by Puccini, and in his shocked horror at an ill-bred friend who, says Durante in moral indignation, "always behaved like a gentleman when we roomed together at Harvard...
...modern industrial state, no matter how tyrannically secretive, can altogether hide its industrial plant and its military establishment from outside view. In recent years, the West has learned a great deal about Russia, not necessarily through cloak & dagger methods, but through patient, painstaking analysis of mountains of Soviet publications, official reports, government directives and statistics. These are often distorted, but they are not completely fantastic; they usually contain enough facts to enable Russia's own managers to go on managing their economy. Independent scholars as well as U.S. Government economists and intelligence analysts have laboriously constructed a picture...
...Rico's worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers to move cautiously. He wanted to cast no cloak of martyrdom over the Nationalists' hero...
...latter got into the Russian embassy at Pyongyang might make a good cloak & dagger story. As for the copies of our U.S. edition, they might have been mailed direct from the U.S. or been part of the bulk subscription order we deliver each week to the Russian embassy in Washington. (In the Soviet Union, 13 copies of our Atlantic edition go to newspapers, libraries, government bureaus and officials...