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...ground forces upon Europe. Both the Kremlin and Washington have long understood (without any official statement) that the West will use its A-bombs if the Red army marches into Western Germany. This winter's shifts in the U.S. attitude give the Kremlin reason to fear that other flagrant aggressions by the Red army will call forth the full power of U.S. retaliation. But the Kremlin knows it can still start brush fires which the U.S. and its allies will have to handle on a local, not a global, basis. Korea brought home to the U.S. the realization that...
...September, had made the U.N.'s most significant decision since its establishment in 1945, to wit, that the veto-free Assembly could act against aggression whenever a veto blocked the Security Council. But it closed on a note of evasion, not firmness, without applying its new power against flagrant Chinese Communist aggression...
Although the down-to-earth picture occasionally contained such flagrant reader-catchers as "What I told Kinsey" (by a young Negro schoolmarm), it was generally a lively, well-edited presentation of Negro life. With Digest (circ. 115,025) and Ebony (circ. 350,000), Johnson became the leading U.S. Negro publisher...
Freshman Senator Paul Douglas stood virtually alone. For two weeks he had been hacking at the $1.5 billion rivers and harbors bill, trying to eliminate a list of projects which he thought were "flagrant examples of pork." Bravely he argued that the country could get along without spending $7,500 to make bathing pleasanter at Palm Beach; $21,000 to improve navigation for the crabbers of Twitch Cove, Md.; $34,500 to improve yachting at Stonington harbor, Conn. He thought that $1.3 million for dredging the Detroit River would benefit no one but the Detroit Edison Co., and that...
Salt Lake City's Deseret* News (circ. 79,589),published by the Mormon Church, ran a fiery Page One editorial last week denouncing a "flagrant, gratuitous and scurrilous insult to the people who laid the foundation of Utah's greatness...