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...react to every move on our part quite as we react to every move on theirs. A shelter program of the size required to make it effective would provoke the Russians not unreasonably to a defensive anger, give them (and uncommitted nations) greater reason to suspect our intentions, compel them to react with countermeasures, and result finally in widening the lift between our two worlds. There is an important difference between increased retaliatory power on the one hand, and the formidableness of cement and cinder-block digging-in on the other, with its implication of permanent and determined hostility...
...thousands of Russian kurorty, where workers go for intensive physical training and reconditioning. West Germany has followed suit, with a dozen year-round centers for elderly and sedentary men. Will U.S. men voluntarily hit the shoe-leather trail? Dr. Raab doubts it and fears legislation may be needed to compel them...
Russians; our State Department has tried frowning; Mr. Nixon has tried both. As long as Mr. Khrushchev is convinced that the balance of power is shifting his way, no amount of either smiles or toughness, neither Camp David talks nor kitchen debates, can compel him to enter fruitful negotiations." What the U.S. needs, he said, is strength to prove to the Russians that negotiation is their only hope...
...most disturbed by the remarks of one frustrated applicant whom you quoted as saying that Princeton is a "party school." Loyalty to Mother Princeton and a command of the facts compel me to set the record straight. I am a junior; I carry four courses each semester. Each requires about six hours of reading preparation each week. In addition, each upperclassman at Princeton is involved in independent work for his particular department. For this I read 22 books and numerous articles in periodicals. The paper I wrote was 15,000 words long, about average for my department...
...that place obstacles in the way of Cuba's purchasing arms and planes; interests that bombed our cane fields and cities." The government's Cormbate hit the streets with an extra, calling the explosion "another U.S.S. Maine,"-hinted that the U.S. had blown up the ship to compel Cuba to accept revision of Cuba's sugar quota...