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Unfortunately the poll has several grievous faults, not the least of which is the narrow range of alternatives offered. The Council asked whether House members would prefer extension of hours on Friday night to 10 p.m. without any other...
Nowhere has this failure of quality in public office been more grievous or more consistent than in the crucial field of diplomatic relations. Eisenhower, while professing a desire for more career appointments and disclaiming political criteria, has repeatedly placed wealthy Republican businessmen in key embassies throughout the world...
...character stood between De Gaulle and a dictator's power. But as France's first postwar President, he had a precise conception of his mission: to restore republican order and "let the people pronounce." He refused to take the drastic action that might have eased France's grievous economic problems. "You won't get me talking economics and finance for a whole afternoon again," he told his Finance Minister irritably one day. Yet at the same time he despised the old "regime of parties." refused to deal with working politicians. "A man equally incapable of monopolizing power and of sharing...
...more protracted the discussions the better. ''If necessary," said Peking Radio last week. "we will talk for five or even ten years.'' Like some U.S. officials, the commissars of Peking saw Quemoy as ''another Dienbienphu"-a position which could be squeezed off with grievous loss of Western prestige and military manpower, but which the West could not rescue without using disproportionate force. But the Communists would be making a grievous mistake if they did not also recognize the difference between Dienbienphu and Quemoy: at Dienbienphu U.S. prestige was not directly at stake; at Quemoy...
...pushing the military too far, the Peronistas stopped talking tough. Underground Leader Guillermo Kelly called newsmen to a secret rendezvous and said he would go along with Frondizi's program "for the good of democracy." For a while at least, Frondizi might be able to concentrate on the grievous economic problems of his fertile but bankrupt country...