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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When, in early 1955, the Communists launched concerted attacks against Chinese Nationalist positions up and down the Formosa Strait, Dulles took it as a crucial probe of U.S. intentions. His response was immediate and unmistakable. The President sought and got a congressional resolution of support for U.S. defense of Formosa and the Pescadores; the President followed that up with a personal letter to Nationalist China's Chiang promising support at islands Quemoy and Matsu. Result: the Communists backed off, and the whole Red China offensive, rolling ever since Mao Tse-tung came out of the Yenan caves, was bogged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN FOSTER DULLES: A Record Clear and Strong For All To See | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...Thursday, coach Norm Shepard had remarked significantly that though the team had been hitting extremely well during the year, it still "lacked hits at the crucial times when men were on base." Shepard's philosophy on winning is somehow to get a runner on first base and then sacrifice him to second, where he can come home on a single...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Nine Beats Crimson Varsity In Tight 4-2 Win | 4/25/1959 | See Source »

...tried to pull all the knowledge of crucial areas together," he recalls, citing the secret intelligence reports from behind the lines as well as economic and political information that the staff of experts prepared from published material. The biggest problem OSS had to face was securing the most important information without angering army and navy intelligence men. Such information as the most important bombing targets ("We couldn't tell the Air Force what to bomb, but we could tell them what the relative importance of targets was") and what railroads needed attack was provided by the "cloak and dagger boys...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: World War II: Faculty Plays Key Role | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

Williams' argument is that the key to American policy in the past seventy years can be found in the famous frontier thesis of Frederic Jackson Turner. An undeveloped hinterland into which capital could be poured was seen as the prerequisite for a prosperous economy, and--in the "crucial" panic decade of the 1890's--"Americans reacted to the threat of economic stagnation and the fear of social upheaval by turning abroad for new frontiers...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: An Overseas Frontier Basis of the Cold War? | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

Mike Sheridan is the other veteran defenseman, and Lentz will probably start Dave Grannis from Minnesota to round out the position and give the team added size which is crucial for blocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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