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...time high? "We have never said our policy has been 100% effective and we never will . . . But the real test is how much higher those prices would have risen if the law of supply and demand in the market place had not been permitted to operate to dampen somewhat the rate of spending and proceed to move in the direction of increased savings...
Bristling Messages. In classic diplomatic fashion, Dwight Eisenhower moved surefootedly on these fundamentals of security to dampen the flash points of potential outbreak. Specifically, he set about 1) making plain to the world in the forum of the U.N. that Communism had again shown itself morally bankrupt after the barbarous suppression of satellite independence; 2) stopping the Egypt tinderbox fighting before the Russians had the chance and the time to pour in "volunteers...
Princeton unveiled a new running star, Tom Morris, in throughly trampling a hapless Columbia team, 39 to 0, for the Lions' second straight Ivy loss. Columbia's star quarterback and passer, Claude Benham, received a brain concussion late in the first quarter to further dampen Columbia hopes...
...successfully pressed the Soviets to withdraw from Azerbaijan, in Belgrade in 1949, after Tito had been kicked out of the Cominform and was looking to the West for aid. His present mission: to make a new stab at reducing tensions between NATO partners Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, to dampen neutralist swings in Greece...
...Committee's recommendations for the theatre proper should not dampen the spontaneity of student productions. But its recommendations for a faculty "Director of the Theatre" suggest College control, or at least domination, of a field whose main virtue has been its independant enthusiasm. There is no doubt that a Professor of considerable rank and popularity will be needed to arrange program schedules and to assign priorities. There are serious doubts, however, about the value of the recommendation that, "He should be responsible for policy and should administer and schedule the program of the theatre." Student directors have serious and, perhaps...