Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most intelligent Europeans know quite well that they could not stand aside in event of a Russian-U. S. struggle, but they have suffered so much that fear overcomes reason. Unlike the U.S.'s old isolationism, the new European brand does not spring from a sense of security, but from an overwhelming knowledge of insecurity. Britain's R. H. S. Grossman, a leader of the dissident Laborites, put it thus: "Europe has become a relatively unimportant place . . . where the atom bombs meant to fall on America will fall short on Britain. . . . This country is now indefensible...
...historic force. The man was Motormaker Henry Ford, who would have traded in Europe for a slightly used Model T. Through watching him, two generations of Europeans caught a glimpse-however distorted-of U.S. capitalism's great adventure. When he died last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the event showed sharply what had happened to Europe's picture of him and of America...
...Washington, the Administration held the phone, listening to the wrangle. Last week, as the deadline of the "impossible" walkout became imminent, Attorney General Tom Clark found a law (the Federal Communications Act) which he said gave the President the right to seize the lines in the event of a strike. Said Beirne: "He is stretching the law to the breaking point...
Yacht Club members ran up 114 points in a ten event pentagonal regatta on the Charles yesterday afternoon to capture third place. M.I.T. and Dartmouth racked up 187 and 139 points respectively...
...program for the event will not be confined to the Saturday night dance alone. Plans are being discussed for obtaining the services of prominent entertainers and for festivities extending over the entire weekend...