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...before Douglas MacArthur gave Congress a four-point strategy to win the Korean war, Harry Truman made public, through a press release, a four-point strategy for the defense of the Pacific. Its provisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREATIES: For Pacific Security | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...University yesterday released a four-point plan dealing with students who enlist in the Armed Forces before completing their regular course of study here. The announcement, touching on course credit, tuition, and board and lodging charges was released by Dean Gill after a four-hour Administrative Board meeting in University Hall yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Gives New Enlistment Policy | 1/9/1951 | See Source »

...summer vacation. When he appeared for his weekly news conference, he looked a little like a man who could use one. The usually natty Mr. Truman seemed almost rumpled after a day that began at 5 a.m.; by late afternoon h's shirt was mussed and his four-point breast-pocket handkerchief had lost its Esquire esprit. For the first time in months, Harry Truman seemed to have a little trouble keeping the reporters in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Cruising Along | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Tufts got away to a four-point lead with two baskets early in the game, but Harvard took the lead in the middle of the first period. After that, the game was never close, the Crimson expanding a five-point half-time lead into a runaway in the closing minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Quintet Easily Sets Down Tufts In Opener, 60-36 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan, the White House court jester, made a terse, four-point reply: 1) he knew Hunt only casually, considered him a mere "file clerk who makes maybe $10,000 a year" (Vaughan's base pay as a major general: $8,800); 2) he knew there were "at least 300 people in Washington" in the same racket, selling their knowledge of Washington ways to businessmen who want government contracts; 3) he couldn't understand why people would "pick on a sergeant [i.e., Hunt, who was a wartime colonel] when at least two major generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The General Opens His Mouth | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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