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...Saigon, the all but forgotten war against the Viet Cong continues on its ugly, bloody and wearisome course. The drive against the Communists has not diminished in recent weeks; in fact, it has intensified. Fears that the Buddhist controversy might damage morale among Vietnamese troops have so far been groundless. If last week's battles were any criterion, the government soldiers are fighting better than ever against a Communist foe that is exacting a hideous price in blood in the flooded paddies of the South...
...China, Outer Mongolia first showed its loyalty to Moscow by roundly condemning China's stooge, Albania. The Mongols went much farther last year, when Luvsantserengiin Tsende, the No. 2 Communist, charged that the "deep moral decay of the Chinese Communist Party" was evidenced by Peking's "groundless and malicious attacks on the Leninist party and the Soviet Union." In taking a hard line against Peking, Outer Mongolia was taking desperate chances, since its territory is surrounded on three sides...
...that Mikoyan would lay down the law to Castro, ordering him to get out of the big boys' way. But on his way to Havana, Mikoyan stopped off in New York for chats at the U.N., declared that U.S. news stories about his visit to Cuba were "absolutely groundless guesses and fantasies." What was more, Mikoyan strongly endorsed Castro's preposterous propositions. The Soviet Union, said Mikoyan, "considers them just...
...this country." As late as 1945, a Southern Congressman told the House that "practically every department is now infested with those who see eye to eye with Frankfurter-the Rasputin of this Administration." ∙ But fears that Frankfurter would be a flaming radical on the bench proved to be groundless. Instead, he became the Supreme Court's most consistent and articulate advocate of "judicial restraint" -the concept that the lawmaking function rests with the legislatures, not the courts. He liked to quote a remark that his friend and hero, Oliver Wendell Holmes, made in his gos: "About 75 years...
...transfer of quarters to the Union in 1891: "There was much fear that the new quarters would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no punch night could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved to be groundless...