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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After this, a straw vote will be taken, and then those who have signed their names to the speakers list will be given the chance to express their opinions. Non-signers will have to wait their turn. Those who are against the executive resolution may speak again, if a move to vote on the question fails. In all but a few cases, all votes will be done by roll call...
...This hall is dedicated to one of the great freedoms-freedom of expression," said its designer, U.S. Architect Hugh Stubbins, 45. "Its form was inspired by an attempt to express that great purpose." To capture the ideal in concrete and steel, Architect Stubbins designed a thin concrete shell roof slung between two bowed-out arches, set underneath as a stabilizer a multipurpose auditorium that by his own admission looked "like a teacup on stilts...
...significant new policy has been worked out by the U.S. to back the promotion of free enterprise with dollars. Whereas previous foreign-aid bills only paid lip service to free enterprise, the latest foreign-aid legislation contains a whole new section setting up a Development Loan Fund for the express purpose of "encouraging competitive free enterprise" abroad. For the first time the U.S. Government is authorized to make loans directly to foreign businessmen. The Administration and such businessmen as Clarence Randall, former chairman of Inland Steel, and Benjamin Fairless, former president of U.S. Steel, plus such business organizations...
...despite this hatred which the people so outwardly express, and the new found autonomy which they love, their leaders maintain the realistic stand that given Poland's geographical position, they cannot break with Russia. They feel, Brzezinski says, that a complete break would lead to one of two possibilities. One, the Russians would fight to regain complete power, as they did in Hungary, with the West offering no aid. Or two, if the break were successful, and Poland became a member of the Western block, it would then have no support against the danger of Germany swallowing it up again...
...Love Possessed ends on a stoic note. Julius Penrose's statement that it takes real courage, intelligence, and discretion to carry on despite the recognition of one's sins, one's loss of honor and selfesteem, would appear to express the author's view...