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...Russia. Few Foggy Bottom employees could have ridden out that kind of storm. But 'Kohler went on to distinguish himself by ability and hard work in Ankara, returned to Washington in 1958 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. In 1959 he was the top State Department official accompanying Vice President Nixon to the U.S.S.R., and had charge of arrangements for Premier Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. The next year he was made an Assistant Secretary of State. Last summer, at the height of the crisis over Allied air access to West Berlin, it was Kohler...
Honestus: Well, it's seldom said that bluntly-even though it's so. Actually, there are two separate farm problems, which require separate solutions, and some of the confusion about farm policy arises from failure to distinguish between them. There is the problem of marginal farmers, most of them in the South, who barely scratch a living from the soil; their difficulty is not overproduction but underproduction. The marginal farmer lacks the capital, land, energy, initiative, skill, or whatever else is required to earn a U.S.-style livelihood in agriculture in competition with commercial farmers. The other problem...
...There is not that much variation between the academic records of the undergraduate organizations," Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, declared. He, like Owen and Bender, sees no definite factors which distinguish the athlete as a student from other "types" of undergraduates...
...many), who likes to sample his Lardneriana over the wide range offered by a box of Mother's Day chocolates. When Lardner was good, he was very, very good; when he was bad, he could be awful. This collection, by concentrating on Lardner rarities, too often fails to distinguish between the two, could better have been an anthology of Lardner's best for an era that could well profit from his trenchant humor...
Taking a look at themselves, the critics found that the average Trinity student "makes few efforts to distinguish himself culturally." His extracurricular activities are "ludicrous and grotesque," and cheating on exams is "tacitly accepted." Typically, he "does not have any concept of what education involves, nor does he give any evidence of wanting to find out." Music Professor Clarence Walters, whose department got the worst panning, called it "inconceivable that the administration should permit the publication of such a report." But Trinity's President Albert C. Jacobs promptly forwarded the document to his trustees, with a proud note...