Word: frosts
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...George Frost Kennan, 56-will go to Belgrade as Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Onetime Ambassador to Moscow (1952) and longtime student of Communism and Russia, Kennan singlehanded did much to awaken the U.S. to the dangers of postwar Soviet imperialism, authored the Truman Administration's "containment" policy. Careerist Kennan was shunted into exile (to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) by John Foster Dulles in 1953. In 1957 he flirted with "disengagement," i.e., neutralization of Germany" and the disarming of NATO, as a means of reaching a settlement with the Russians. No less a person than his ex-boss, Dean...
Only two individuals at the inaugural ceremony made any lasting impression: John Kennedy and Robert Frost...
Then there was the phony dispatch from U.S. Admiral Laurence Frost, chief of the Bureau of Naval Intelligence, which alarmed Indonesia by "revealing" U.S. backing of antigovernment rebels ("We will continue to give assistance to you through Taiwan and the Philippines"). Two other forgeries attributed to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree respectively, incensed the United Arab Republic by tipping off purported U.S. efforts to undermine the U.A.R.'s prestige in the Arab world. A forged secret annex to a British Cabinet paper gummed up relations between British trade unions and their...
Against Conformity. Students offer many reasons for turning conservative, but one is repeated over and over. Poet Robert Frost once wrote, "I never dared be radical when young. For fear it would make me conservative when old." The new trend is youth's natural rebellion against conformity, and to many the liberalism of their New Deal-bred elders is the most ironbound conformity. "My parents thought Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the greatest heroes who ever lived," says the Y.A.F. chairman, Yale Law Student Robert Schuchman, 22. "I'm rebelling from that concept." Says President Roger Claus...
...usually roost in buildings, but even where they stay in trees the terrain underneath is generally lawn or pavement; Milan just happened to offer the right circumstances. To make Milan's school parking lot and playground inhospitable to Histoplasma, the town will blacktop them as soon as the frost is out of the ground...