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...speech to the nation on the Formosa Straits situation, President Eisenhower committed the country to the defense of Quemoy and Matsu should negotiations prove fruitless, and declared simultaneously that any such parleys could lead to no agreement "prejudicing" the position of Chiang Kai-Shek. Little else could be said in a public pronouncement, for surely the U.S. could not announce that it would yield to Red China's show of force. But no public pronouncement would have been better than one in which the President hamstrung the country between the militarism of Mao Tse-Tung and the intransigence of Chiang...
Round-trip plane tickets to the fair cities of Annapolis and Ithaca sell for something like 50 dollars. The varsity's travelling list usually comprises about twenty men. Add incidentals, and the total outlay for these fruitless ventures comes to upwards of one thousand bills apiece...
...proSoviet and pro-Communist," friends of Castro point to the character of his army. Almost to a man, they are Roman Catholics, who wear religious medals on their caps or on strings around their necks. For the sake of getting on with the war, Castro says, he avoids fruitless political discussions with his one outrightly pro-Red captain...
Traps and trap setters were not even camouflaged. For four weeks three of the committee's Republicans-Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nebraska's Carl Curtis and South Dakota's Karl Mundt had been leading the committee thorough the bitter history of the U.A.W.'s, fruitless four-year, $10 million strike against Wisconsin's Kohler Co. (TIME, March 17), second largest U.S. plumbing-fixture manufacturer (No. 1; American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. , The three Republicans had long since decided the U.A.W. was at fault to their surprise. Walter Reuther was willing to agree halfway. Mass...
...unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world... It is also true that, we have some acquaintance with that life of polished dissipation and fruitless travel which we are pleased to call "the world," our estimate of the real world, as we argue from a part to the whole, may naturally be of peculiarly fallacious and depreciative character. Briefly, are we not indifferent from superficial thought, and superficial from desultory attention, divided energy, want...