Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sitting with the boys in the cheering section. Radcliffe was still a much-maligned institution whose students were worth nothing except A's in courses taught by Harvard Faculty members. But during the last war, when expediency brought "joint education" and inflation brought soaring prices for outside entertainment, the dam of the anti-feminists broke. House residents now entertained women guests in considerable numbers, and in 1946 the Masters, disturbed by non-masculine sounds emanating from House rooms in the early afternoon, decided that they didn't like the pre-4 p.m. part of the new parietal regulations after...
...called last week on Vice President Chen Cheng, the commission chairman, to offer his thanks and to remind the Vice President that he is an engineer (Purdue '23) as well as a military man (V.M.I. '27). Sun's likely next assignment: Formosa's new Shihmen dam project, of which Chen Cheng is also chairman...
...States. The Administration grants technical assistance to underdeveloped countries as a "mutual defense support" against Communist infiltration. When such infiltration is not imminent, however, these countries receive aid only when they press for it. Russia does not even wait for them to ask. As is shown by the Soviets' dam offer, they fill in any holes in Western aid programs with a vengeance...
This warmth in Washington's attitude toward aid naturally made the Egyptians play "hard to get." They began to listen to Soviet offers, both of arms and, equally importantly, of technical aid with the Aswan dam project. Yet stiff provision in their agreements with the U.S. also confused the Egyptians. As much as anything else it was their confusion over American technical aid intentions which made the Egyptians receptive to Soviet promises...
This conclusion should not suggest that if the United States had financed the Aswan dam in the first place, Russia would not have made its offers and there would be no Middle East tensions. Such dams cost over $1 billion, and the U.S. obviously can't go building them wherever underdeveloped countries need them. Nor does it mean that the U.S. should give technical aid without regard to the overall aims of its foreign policy. It only suggests that instead of an unholy alliance between its military and technical and programs, the U.S. should let the two stand separately...