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...hence to destroy her more thoroughly than she could hope to destroy the U.S.-has been the ultimate deterrent to Russian military adventures. If the day of an ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither of us wants war, but our strength is that you fear it more." Protected-at least in their own mind-by the umbrella of U.S. fear, the Soviets might well succumb to the temptation to test American resolution with brushfire wars against the weaker, and more...
...Gawky Girl. The Royal Navy does not take kindly to pampered princelings. Tough instructors at Dartmouth went out of their way to prove the validity of Captain Bligh's legendary dictum that "a midshipman is the lowest form of life in the British Navy." But Phil the Greek (as he was sometimes called) weathered every storm. In two terms he received only one day's punishment, and might well have avoided a second rude admonition had it not been for a young lady who came to call...
...that he and Attorney General Brownell had drawn up, the President noted that: 1) local, not federal, authorities have the responsibility for drawing up school integration plans; 2) local authorities and federal courts-not the President-have the job of setting the desegregation timetable to suit the Supreme Court dictum of desegregation "with all deliberate speed," but 3) a desegregation order from a federal court "must be obeyed" by state officials, and the specific powers of a state governor "may not be used" to defeat a valid federal court order. Narrowing down to the Southern governors' Little Rock formula...
...into practice, this dictum makes all Americans, particularly those abroad, into small megaphones for the State Department. Dulles implements his belief by reserving to himself the right to limit travel to conform to State Department whims...
...passing, Judge Youngdahl dropped a dictum that just about seemed to bar congressional investigating committees from questioning newsmen at all. "To inhibit the freedom of thought and association of newspapermen," he said, "is to infringe upon the freedom of the press...