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...rebellion has made far more paupers than the economic situation which the U.S. mission tried to remedy. If the program had provided a tractor, a combine and a herd of Holstein cattle for every peasant in Greece, the people still would not have been able to save their families, houses and possessions from marauding Communist bands...
...Kiss & a: Kick. The Merry-Go-Round's complex and contradictory pilot regards himself as a man with a mission; he thinks of himself as the conscience of government, a Vigilante riding herd on Washington...
...might not be a bad idea. A Cabinet of gargantuan size would force the soothsayers out into the open, and the public could select those with genuine imaginative powers from the common herd of predictors. As it is, almost every seer is compelled to inflict the same old ordinary palaver on his audience. Few variations are possible--such as suggesting Eisenhower for Secretary of Agriculture instead of Defense--and these have been nearly exhausted by now. So have the prophets; and, it is fervently to be hoped, the public will get a little tired...
...difference between a party platform and a legislative program is the difference between cup and lip. Last week Administration officials were ready to talk about the 81st Congress' legislative program. Faithful Alben Barkley, who will ride herd on the Senate, was prepared to translate at least some, of the Democratic platform promises into...
...tension between Clift and Wayne cannot stagnate. As they wind their way across the Panhandle the two men become more and more distraught and their enmity breaks the surface when Wayne threatens to hang two deserters. Clift protects the men, turns against Wayne and takes over the herd, leaving his former partner behind...