Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Important Risk. Dead set on the other side of the argument-and against any "liberalized" China policy-are the President's closest foreign-policy advisers, led by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Walter Robertson, Dulles' Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. Together with Defense Secretary Wilson and all the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they argue vehemently for the current official position that the U.S. (as Robertson crisply puts it) must take no action "which would create international prestige for the [Peking] regime...
Lady Jackson and Panofsky will deliver the major addresses at this afternoon's meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Pusey, Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo, and Alumni President George Whitney '07 will also speak...
...Washington's political spectrum, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Minnesota's Stevensonian Democrat Hubert Humphrey are many shades apart. Yet last week Senator Humphrey and Secretary Dulles emerged arm in arm from a conference at Dulles' home in which Dulles heaped laurels on Humphrey. Reason: so sharp an impression of U.S. interest had Humphrey created during a four-week tour of Europe and the Middle East, so well did he defend U.S. policy there, that diplomatic cables into Foggy Bottom were buzzing with well-dones...
...benefits it reaps from college ball, professional baseball does nothing to foster it, or even to cooperate in keeping it going, complains the American Association of College Baseball Coaches. On the contrary, says the association, "the overwhelming evidence indicates that professional baseball is more interested in retarding the growth and development of the college game." Big-league scouts wave fat bonuses at high-school stars who might otherwise be tempted to take advantage of an athletic scholarship. College crowds, already dwindling for lack of talent in the field, stay home on spring afternoons to watch major-league television. Sooner...
...wastrel ways as champion, and soon comes to his downfall under the whirling assault of the human pinwheel, Henry Armstrong. In the next few years, as the film tells the story, Barney gambles away his restaurant business and (for the time being) the affection of his best girl (Dianne Foster), winds up in the Marines during World...