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Facts of Life. Despite this somber chronicle of flight and death, many politicians and pundits outside Germany still cling to the notion - based in part on deep-rooted fear of resurgent German power - that its people are gradually becoming reconciled to their coun try's partition. In West Germany itself, this view is accepted in some quarters, mostly because it is a fact of present European life that the Russians cannot be moved out of East Germany, except by war, a West German surrender to Communism, or some kind of settlement for which West Germany might have...
...American Alumni Coun gave McCord a special award for his writings over the years for the Harvard Fund, of which he has been Executive Director since...
...insurrection by his Nasser-minded opponents. Result: U.S. troops came in, Chamoun went out, and neutralist General Fuad Chehab replaced him for a six-year term. Last week the Lebanese were in the throes of their first post-revolt election. And for the first time in the coun try's 14-year history, they enjoyed the benefit of a secret ballot...
...Sorbonne-educated professor of government, ascetically lean and given to wearing natty waistcoats, called to him "all the multi tudes who dream of a new life with jus tice and real democratic equality, without privileged parties." He recalled the roads and schools that he lavished on the coun try during his previous three presidential terms (1934-35, 1944-47, 1952-56). This time he promised to tax large property holders into selling out in favor of a land-reform program, and to spend heavily on public housing and highways...
...surprise of some G.O.P. businessmen, Justice has commenced 157 antitrust cases since January 1953, won 25 convictions and signed 99 consent decrees forcing breakups of business concentrations. Brownell has 1) pushed a program that reduced the backlog of Government cases in federal courts by 25%. and 2) coun seled the appointment of some 68 high-caliber federal judges. His department helped win the Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, and it is his department that will have to work through the federal courts to make the desegregation decisions effective...