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...Eisenhower has also shown that he is a capable and effective executive, a war hero who successfully exchanged his military cap for a diplomatic homberg. Even his harshest critics have generally limited themselves to mild attacks: that although Eisenhower may be a fine fellow he is no intellectual heavyweight, that he is an "old man," that he is a reflection of the prosperous times rather than the cause...
...Goya died of the infection that deafened him at 47, he would be remembered only as a Spanish court painter with a knack for candid likenesses. But the tortuous, stone-silent path he entered in middle age led steeply upward, and he clambered gloomily to greatness. The blackest and harshest of the old masters, Goya made bitterness a virtue and found pessimism a fountain of youth. A big traveling show of Goya drawings, on display this week in San Francisco, proves once again how great his final achievement...
...please and hit the bull's eye. All this does not make him a "master," for the true masters of art have been those who inspired mankind. Renoir's mission was more that of a chef who served up delicious refreshments for the eyes. Only the harshest of puritans could carp at such a benefactor, or regret his popularity...
Result: of all the services, the U.S. Army this year received the harshest manpower slashes, and also suffered deep cuts in funds for its precious research and development program...
Responding to public appeal, Congress started the trouble when it posted a bill of strategic goods which businessmen could not sell to Eastern Europe and Red China. Since the harshest complaints were leveled at the Chinese Communists, the number of items embargoed for them outnumbered the list for the satellite countries. The Eastern Europe gimmick is to buy strategic materials in the West and freight them to the Chinese at top prices. Each day free world generators, machine tools, and petroleum equipment are raced across the Trans-Siberian railroad to the East, all via the profit making of the middle...