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...agency outside the National Institutes of Health. The Nixon Administration responded with a plan of its own for an expanded NCI within NIH, then was forced into a surrender disguised as a compromise (TIME, July 5). The Senate subsequently passed a bill, 79 to 1, creating an ambitiously named Conquest of Cancer Agency. It would be administratively and financially independent of NIH, though nominally part of the agency. The theory behind both plans is that medicine knows enough about the disease to adopt a crash-program approach comparable to the Manhattan Project during World...
...second athletic conquest by the Crimson within a 12-hour span. In a more even matchup Friday night in Pomeroy Piddlywink Arena at Wellesley, the Crimson won the first piddlywink contest it has ever played by topping the world champion Pomeroy Piddlywink Team...
English Kremlinologist Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror, an exhaustive study of Stalin's purges of the '30s, says of the Medvedev history: "It is the first full attempt by a Russian to deal with the Stalin period, and gives by far the most detailed account yet of the errors and horrors of Stalinism...
...this point is an unnegotiable demand. They see Chaing as a deposed civil war dictator. Not only is America's support of the Chaing clique an attempt at insurrection, but, more crucially, Americans occupy Chinese soil. Due to the past hundred years of humiliation at the hands of foreign conquest, Mao and Chou can find no better issue to galvanize overwhelming domestic support...
...intense?and dirty?as ever, despite the rise of a new type of operative. Since World War II, espionage has undergone a metamorphosis. For a time, its stars were the famed "illegal" or "deep cover" agents?the Colonel Abels, the Gorden Lonsdales, the Kim Philbys. Says British Sovietologist Robert Conquest: "These men compare with the massive embassy operations rather as a skilled armored thrust compares with human-wave tactics in war." Moreover, the growing phalanxes of routine operatives are supported by spy-in-the-sky satellites that can send back photographs showing the precise diameter of a newly dug missile...