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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Military Aid. The U.S. offers aid to bolster the common U.S. and free-world defenses by supporting the military forces of allied nations. Already the U.S. has mutual-security treaties with 42 nations; since 1950 the U.S. has spread out $17 billion in direct military assistance to such good effect that the allies have spent $107 billion of their own on the common defense. (In 1950 U.S. allies had 500 jet aircraft; now they have 13,000.) The military program provides not only for direct purchases of military hardware but for aid to create a sound logistic base (e.g., supply...
...Cesare Palminteri marched into the Renaissance courtroom on Venice's Grand Canal-and demolished his own case. Anna Maria Caglio, he said flatly, was a liar-"a perfidious woman intent on vengeance and dedicated to mud-slinging." The fact was, declared Palminteri, that "there is absolutely no evidence, direct or indirect, against Piero Piccioni." He hinted broadly that the police would want to talk some more with Uncle Giuseppe ("What is he hiding?"). Then he asked that the charges be dropped against Piccioni and his codefendants...
Harold W. Dodds, who will retire as president of Princeton University in June, will direct a study of the office of the college and university presidency, the Carnegie Foundation announced recently...
...article in the June issue of Fortune magazine, Dr. Richard W. Husband of Florida State University said that his survey of members of his class at Dartmouth, the class of 1926, indicated a direct relation between present income and number of extracurricular activities in college...
...prayers, hymns, solemn speeches and outright rabble-rousing. New York's shrill Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell bitterly cried: "We meet here today in front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past, was Montgomery, Ala.'s soft-spoken Pastor Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18). Gist of the Rev. King's eloquent plea to the White House and Congress: "Give us the ballot...