Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Americans must not assume too lightly that Premier Khrushchev's disarmament proposal is "only propaganda." A tendency exists here, particularly in high governmental circles, to dismiss anything that emerges from Russian mouths as tainted and patently unacceptable. No one can object to care or even suspicion in considering Soviet proposals, especially with so much at stake, but in this case there is a strong chance that Khrushchev means business. If so, he must be taken seriously...
...more likely to emerge from negotiation. But along this line Khrushchev's particular proposals require very careful scrutiny, for they seem designed to weaken the West far more than the Soviet Union. The Russians ask the elimination of foreign bases and nuclear weapons, followed, not accompanied, by inspection. Even if the Soviets carried out this process in good faith, their superior ground forces would give them a military advantage which might well tempt them into provoking limited peripheral conflicts without fear of nuclear retaliation. The next step, or possibly a concurrent one, according to Khrushchev, would be the removal...
These Soviet proposals for partial disarmament are clearly dangerous from the Western point-of-view. Their acceptance would have to be based on a complete trust in Soviet motives, and not even the most sanguine pacifists can be this ingenuous. The West either must work for total disarmament or must propose some partial steps of its own. These steps would need to go further than unilateral cessation of nuclear testing or than the rather far-fetched "open skies" concept...
...master "form givers" of our century, have in recent years produced buildings that fulfill the promise of their varied styles perhaps as never before. The only work of Le Corbusier's shown is his Chapel at Ronchamp. The brooding, heaving forms of roof and walls have such complexity that even the many fine photographs by Life photographer Ezra Stoller do not even begin to reveal all their sculptural possibilities...
Overcowding in lower level General Education courses is expected to even out by the end of the week, according to Barry D. Karl, Secretary to the Committee on General Education. Karl discussed the factors which have contributed to the crowded conditions which exist particularly in the Social Sciences courses...