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Tactfulness and friendship toward the visitors is basic if such a program is to achieve success, and therefore diminish Communist danger, and increase Latin American and U.S. friendship
...present moment you have success with the "Alliance for Progress" in Latin American countries, it is only because the loan is still in the form of the promise. But once the loan is conceded, the effect, as generally has happened, will probably diminish. Actually the loan policy is extremely important, but the U.S. should try also another one, a less spectacular one whose results can only be evinced in a long-term run, in five or ten years time...
...divert Britain's mind from sex and security. Displaying something like his old form in the House of Commons, he delivered an eloquent speech on prospects for disarmament and a summit conference that was received respect fully even by the Opposition. But Macmillan's eloquence could not diminish Tory distress over the three separate scandals that plagued his government...
...DIVIDE EACH STATE INTO ELECTORAL DISTRICTS, similar to congressional districts, with one electoral vote apiece. Under a plan sponsored by South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, each state in addition would have two statewide electoral votes. His plan, says Mundt, would diminish "the present inordinate power of organized pressure groups." Among the objections: state legislatures would be tempted to gerrymander electoral districts...
...concentration. But this is only part of the explanation for the rule against living out-the other part is that the Houses are a monolithic conception of education, and the Masters have sufficient faith in that conception to feel that competition has no function except to diminish students' motivation. They believe, in addition, that most who want to escape the Houses really wish only to escape parietal rules, and their emotions about those rules are sufficiently confused so that their impulse is to prevent rather than to reexamine the system supporting those rules...