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...Laos, where the year-old government of Premier Phoui Sananikone has taken an ever firmer pro-Western stance, Peking by this theory was driven by the same motive that prompted its intervention in the Korean war: an obsession with the need for friendly, or, at worst, safely neutral buffer states on all its borders. With luck the Chinese could hope to topple Phoui's government and force a more sympathetic regime into power; more modestly, they could almost certainly count on occupying Laos' northern provinces, thus creating a "sanitized" zone on China's southern frontier...
...Mowrer suggested: "There is a very tangible and very present hell on this earth. It is this-the hell of neurosis and psychosis-to which sin and unexpiated guilt lead us. If it proves true that certain forms of conduct characteristically lead to emotional instability, what better or firmer basis would one wish for labeling such conduct as destructive, self defeating, evil, sinful...
...bombshell, the West's first toughness began to erode. At a plenary conference session, Britain's Lloyd, in a boys-will-be-boys tone, suggested that everybody just forget "Mr. Gromyko's contribution of Tuesday and Wednesday . . . and get back to real business." Herter, in firmer vein, prodded Gromyko into publicly stating that he had not meant his "proposal" as an ultimatum. As Herter well knew, however, this did not imply an iota of change in Gromyko's stand. And as if to make that clear, the Soviet Foreign Minister for the first time adopted...
...Radcliffe girls did not play down the importance of everyday political questions, especially conworship and prayer and by a firmer cerning feminine equality. The spirit of Carrie Nation showed through in one girl's answer to the question, "Would you have any objections to the election as President of the United States of a Roman Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, an atheist or agnostic." She checked her objection to "an atheist" with this remark: "if he made a public point about it. Otherwise it's his or her own business...
...before he can complete his monument to F.D.R. Like the first volume. The Crisis of the Old Order (TIME, March n, 1957). this one relies too heavily on scraps from the daily press, and often reads as though it were threaded rather than written. And while there is a firmer effort to be objective, the method of quoting both for and against a man or an issue frequently results in a Mexican standoff. And so many people are quoted in an effort to get "behind the mask" of Roosevelt that the reader begins to long for a page of forthright...