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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unanimous vote, the Student Council last night endorsed the attempt of 35 Air ROTC seniors here to gain commissions this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Supports AROTC Seniors, Postpones Action on Conservatives | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

...Range of Power. Later in the week, Dulles sat before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and carefully moved on with his mission of clarification: "The best way to deter aggression is to make the aggressor know in advance that he will suffer damage outweighing what he can hope to gain . . . The free world must maintain and be prepared to use effective means to make aggression too costly to be tempting . . . The greatest deterrent to war is the ability of the free world to respond by means best suited to the particular area or circumstances." And that ability, said Dulles, requires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Emphasis on Capacity | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Frenchmen are attracted by the notion of a global package deal: a cease-fire in Indo-China for rejection of EDC. Jacques Soustelle, a power in the Gaullist party, said last week: "If France should obtain a cessation of hostilities and, at the same time, reject EDC, she would gain at both tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Waiting for Dienbienphu | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...motivation of Ivy Film is not as pure as you would have it seem. Ivy shows movies to gain the money to make movies. Thus for Ivy, like us all, showing movies is not an end in itself. We must further remember that Ivy was not the first group on campus to show films; apparently the Dean's Office considered other groups to have legitimate reasons also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE MOVIE MOGULS | 3/23/1954 | See Source »

...exhibition play, the Boston Red Sox yesterday took advantage of six walks in two innings by Cardinal pitcher Tom Poholsky to gain a 3-2 victory. Other exhibition scores yesterday were: New York (A) (Byrd) 8, Brooklyn (Palica) 2; Milwaukee (Spahn) 10, Philadelphia (Konstanty) 0; New York (N) (Gomez) 9, Cleveland (Garcia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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