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Smith is the only Big Seven women's college which will release figures on the total number of applicants. The admissions departments of the other schools feel that a comparison of these large figures to the smaller numbers of students who can be admitted might deter prospective students from applying, the Radcliffe dean explained...
...whose business it is to plan for war, in both the U.S. and Russia, know better. In February U.S. Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles set forth the U.S. position quite clearly: "To deter not only total war, but limited war as well. I believe we must make clear to all potential aggressors that we will resist aggression with our quality weapons from the outset. Any lesser posture of deterrence is an open invitation to aggression, and is less than our best effort to avert...
...fact that Britain was engaging the French army hotly in battle over the Spanish succession did not deter George I from ordering a whole Paris trousseau for his daughter-in-law. Marie Antoinette's dressmaker, Rose Bertin, maintained Paris' reputation for extravagant whims, and after the Revolution, aristocratic ladies carried on with the macabre fancy of dressing 'àa la victime,' their hair shorn off as in preparation for the guillotine and their necks bound by a thin red ribbon to simulate the cut of the knife. Trade thrived, and soon Louis' chief minister...
...President. But thoughtful Senators on both sides of the aisle began to wonder whether adoption of "authorized" might throw doubt upon the President's implied power as Commander in Chief to use armed forces to safeguard the nation's security. This doubt, the reasoning ran, might deter future Presidents from taking necessary action in future crises. To uproot this constitutional thorn patch, Mansfield drafted an amendment to change the wording from "he is authorized to employ the armed forces of the U.S. as he deems necessary" to "if the President determines the necessity thereof, the U.S. is prepared...
Unrelenting Strain. Around the atom, which now comes in almost all shapes and sizes, the U.S. now deploys a versatile force-Army, Navy and Air Force-designed to 1) deter wars, 2) to win wars and 3) to give precise support to U.S. diplomacy at precise points. Such a force-in-being, constantly under re-evaluation and re-equipment, demands such phenomenal expenditures as $15 million for an atomic-submarine power plant (about as much as a World War II light cruiser), $8,000,000 for an intercontinental B-52 jet bomber (as much as 42 World...