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...Coan-Silveira proposal maintained that since in fact, many undergraduate interests were focused beyond the Houses and on inter-collegiate levels, it was unrealistic to say that an improved Varsity Club would deter from the present success or lack of it of the House system...
...doing enough-that all previous imperialisms were "kid stuff" compared to Russia's, that the previous responses of diplomacy were inadequate, and that "we could lose without ever firing a shot." What was needed was not deals with the Kremlin, but new "situations of strength" which alone would deter the Communists. The. U.S., Acheson held, must fight the cold war with "total diplomacy," comparable in sacrifice by the American people to total...
...Bonn government announced that it would tighten the Civil Code to deter future Hedlers. An official move got under way to try Hedler again in a denazification court. "Good Germans" like Knoeringen and Inge Scholl would have to do the rest...
...things stand, Lippmann seems to think the U.S. has the power to deter Soviet aggression, because the Russians believe that if the Red army marches appreciably beyond its present lines, the U.S. will go to war. But this will work only so long as the Russians believe that the U.S. does not plan to attack them in a preventive war, whether they march...
Shirley May France's clothes still hung on the hickory limb but she clung anxiously to a French beach, waiting for southwesterly winds to die down. The winds did not deter a hefty, partially crippled, 34-year-old Belgian mining machine manufacturer named Fernand du Moulin. Around 10 o'clock one night last week Fernand left a champagne party given by his wife, anointed himself with grease and took to the choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying...