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Capehart stiffed open discussion by identifying non-confirming opinion with sympathy for Communism, according to Galbraith. The Senator "injudiciously lifted two paragraphs from context from the pamphlet, edited them to heighten the effect, and cited them as evidence that I am sympathetic to Communism," Galbraith added...
Such peaceful, secluded living has served to heighten the chief quality of Gerassi's paintings: a warm and sunny kind of innocence. But the simplicity actually springs from an arduous process of trial and error-from "failures," as he says...
...influx of over one million Nationalist Chinese in late 1949 seemed destined to heighten discontent on the island. The agricultural problem was particularly serious because Formosa had only two million acres of arable land, already fully cultivated, to feed a population which had expanded almost four times itself in the last fifty years. Foreseeing a possible scarcity of foodstuffs, Chiang sold public lands, reduced the size of many large estates, and lowered land taxes. Within almost equalled the highest pre-war figure, Industry, badly mismanaged under earlier Chinese rule, also expanded; exports rose by over a third, though international trade...
...entire program has prompted approval from other women's colleges. "We encourage many of our students to go on to Radcliffe for their graduate work," said Sarah G. Blanding, president of Vassar College. "I know that a center will inevitably heighten the experience of young women at Radcliffe...
...public could hardly be blamed for feeling that it had been given too slight a review of the first full-scale thermonuclear explosion and too much of sonorous background music, theatrical hokum and bureaucratic lens-hogging. The film, released 17 months after the event (just in time to heighten world apprehension abroad over last month's two bigger explosions), was subject to massive and at times confusing cutting in the name of security. But even so, it might, as some of its scenes dramatically demonstrated, have remained what it deserved to be-a simple record of a soul-shaking...