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...obviously willing to rattle any skeleton in the Truman closet to divert public attention from a snafu in supply. Sample Reeder rattles: 1) When Korea began, "we thought, and many responsible people said, that it was just a police action"; 2) ammunition stocks are low partly because of the "atmosphere of economy" enforced by onetime (1949-50) Defense Secretary Louis Johnson...
This was done until 1932 when Lowell House acquired the bust and assumed the cleaning expenses. But it then took the Corporation 18 years to decide to divert the income from the fund to "maintenance of the Yard...
...people are not even morbidly interested in his private affairs, and it is an unseemly act ... Certainly, this is not a time to seek to divert attention to unimportant side shows like the petty personal fling at Nixon, or the quibble over Stevenson's use of private contributions. Must this buffoonery be further prolonged...
...aluminum v. 4$ at Alcoa's most recent U.S. facilities) to offset the cost of transporting alumina all the way north and finished aluminum to market. Alcoa is ready to raise the whole $400 million unaided, provided that 1) Canada will give permission to dam the river and divert the water, and 2) the U.S. will help Alcoa get title to the 20,000 acres of Alaskan land needed for the site (present homesteading laws limit one Alaskan purchase to 160 acres). The plan has already won the informal backing of the U.S. Defense Department. Moreover, Alcoa, a onetime...
...breaks up the division by asking his sergeant to tuck him into bed, captures a general during maneuvers, jumps from a plane without his chute and lands on Dean's parachute in midair. The screenplay of Jumping Jacks is lighter than air, but the picture may divert those moviegoers who relish Dean's singing and Jerry's uninhibited simiantics...