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Midway in World War II a slight, intense Chinese woman delivered to the U.S. Congress a memorable plea that turned out years later to have been a fateful warning. She was Shanghai-born, Wellesley-educated (class of '17) Mme. Chiang Kaishek, First Lady of Free China. Her plea-lackadaisically met-was for more U.S. help for China to stave off disaster. One day last week Mme. Chiang, back in the U.S. from Formosa for medical checkups, went to Ann Arbor to accept an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Michigan, there delivered another timely warning that...
Listen, the Wind. Simply by appearing in person at the East German Party Congress, Khrushchev demonstrated his support for East Germany's Stalinist chief, goateed Walter Ulbricht. "The wind isn't blowing into your face but Adenauer's." he told party activists. "Don't worry, they'll come yet and knock on your door and say, we're from Bonn and would like to negotiate." He drove into the countryside and hopped out to tell sugar-beet growers how to plant their crops ("in clusters of four"). The crowds in the market squares gave...
...find the right place to make their mark; the men were as fervently convinced as ever that P.R.I, allegiance and patriotism are one and the same thing. The only glimmer of hope for P.A.N. was in a few tight, undecided local races that might boost the P.A.N. total in Congress (from the present six seats in the House of Deputies, none in the Senate...
...schools. Is this enough? For the present, yes was the consensus of the experts quizzed by Bayne-Jones's group. Or as Dr. James A. Shannon, director of the National Institutes of Health (which handles 70% of the Government's outlays in this field), last year told Congress: "For the first time in the history of medical research, the limitation on progress is due more to [shortage of] manpower than moneys available...
Last week the nation's outlay for medical research was sure of a gentle uplift from Congress, possibly much more. As against a total of $211 million for NIH ($153 million of it for research) in the fiscal year ended June 30, the House voted $219 million for NIH, while the Senate's bill called for an Everest ascent to $321 million. At week's end House-Senate conferees were deadlocked, decided to take a two-week breather. But if the Senate prevailed over the House-even so far as to win a split-the-difference agreement...