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...American Excuse." One of Eden's gravest problems was the resistance of the U.S. to any but peaceful means of settling the crisis. But if the resistance of the U.S. to force was a handicap, it was also a tool for agile Sir Anthony. During the Korean war, the Truman Administration employed with some success the "British excuse"-the argument that the U.S. could not engage in all-out war with Red China without alienating, perhaps even losing, Britain and other allies. Now Eden can answer charges that his threats were empty blasts by offering Parliament the "American excuse...
...Handicap (Sat. 5:30 p.m., CBS). $100,000 Atlantic City horse race...
...body's failure to oxidize an amino acid, phenylalanine, to tyrosine. Probable cause of the failure is a defective enzyme. The Pauling project: to find out the connection between the molecular and men tal defects, and also whether the other 99% or more of mental defectives owe their handicap to a similar molecular abnormality caused by a combination of defective genes in their parents...
...marathon started early in July, when Schulman met the governor, his wife and their daughter Carrie Ellen in Seattle. "We talked about everything from Langlie's newly announced keynote-speech assignment at the Republican Convention to his golf handicap," Schulman recalled. At the end the governor had two requests: 1) for the first draft of his keynote speech he wanted a copy of Schulman's notes on his political philosophy, which, Langlie felt, he had just expressed as cogently as he could remember, and 2) could their next meeting be purely social? "On any other basis...
Nobody has ever been able to demonstrate to the Republican leaders that Nixon would be a "handicap." In fact, he disproves it on the stump and captivates big audiences. And nobody has yet been able to find a single sentence which Nixon ever uttered saying that the Democrats were "a party of treason...