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...desire to make the whole world Communist, but to ease a traditional fear of national destruction-justified by ten centuries of invasion by forces as disparate as Vikings and Mongols. The history of the cold war is one in which Russian paranoia faded as American resolve grew firmer...
...which, he contends, the main concern is "the system rather than the end of learning." The intensive lower class year, in which all students take a common course called "Man in Perspective" consisting of interdisciplinary readings ranging from theology to esthetics and science, is designed to provide a firmer transition from high school to the intellectual world. Beloit planners contend that the usual freshman year ends just as students are beginning to adjust to the change. Beloit's middle class then counteracts the traditional "sophomore slump" and its dropout problem by requiring students to leave academe for a spell...
...giant Jersey Standard, and aided by increased sales and firmer gasoline prices, the oil industry did well. Jersey set a record with half-year profits of $563 million. So did Texaco, whose earnings went up an impressive 8%, to $359 million. Mobil Oil also reported a half-year record with $184 million in profits...
...teachers and their students had hoped to press Kennedy to take a firmer stand on Vietnam, and were disappointed. They decided that teachers and students needed a more powrful way of advancing their views than talks with senators...
...Firmer Stance. What does the future hold for the market? Some pessimists say that the average will plop into the low 700s and stay there for a long while; corollary to this theory is the idea that some time next year the U.S. economy will suffer a recession...