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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached far closer agreement on questions deeply affecting the public interest than their leaders realized. Moreover, this consensus, or agreement, was not a result of the accompanying political debate, which indeed tended to conceal it. Nor could it be viewed as a painfully worked out compromise between two relatively equal antagonists holding opposing views...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Diplomat Looks at American Politics | 4/13/1956 | See Source »

...East. Canada proposed that the West and the Communists should submit future foreign aid programs to the U.N. as a matter of public record, so that the world might measure Western and Communist performance against their promises. Mexico seemed primarily delighted to be received and heeded as an equal by Canada and the U.S. So little was actually done, that wits dubbed it "the immaculate conference," but U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles pointed out that the purpose was "to produce an atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To Our Countries | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...calm, low key persuasiveness should help him at the Pentagon, but Wilson points to something else in Murphree's background as an equal asset: a quarter-century of effective service in the vast Standard hierarchy. Such a man, Wilson reasons, should not "get frustrated too quick in this big place." Then, with characteristic Wilson candor, the Defense Secretary made Murphree's position of authority clear. "I think if he gets into a jam between the services," Wilson said, "I will be in it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Man of Missiles | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...mostly a question of fatigue, of being "over the hump," for no Crimson swimmer was able to equal his peak performance of the season. This, coupled with the fact that qualifying times this year were probably lower than ever in the past, limited the varsity to only three finalists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tired Varsity Swim Team Scores Fifteen Points During NCAA Meet | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Actually, few ordinary drivers can hope to equal the Mobilgas marks. Not only are the cars tuned for a peak performance, but the drivers make test runs of the course, checking and timing for red lights, bad grades, etc. Young Alsbury did his preliminary homework so well that in the whole race, studded with 53 traffic lights, he hit not a single one that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Heavyweight Champions | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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